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Quotes About Slight

This might just be two people in a queue, but this has become a mighty battle of wills - a war between all that is right and all that is wrong - and it is I and I alone standing at the gates between one minor slight in the queue-munity, and outright supermarket-based anarchy. In many ways, I am doing this for you.
~ Danny Wallace
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
~ Lucretius
Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!
~ Lee Child
He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.
~ Anthony Doerr
Where did the boy fit? He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.
~ Anthony Doerr
At home, she sulked with extravagance, and I learned early that silence was anything but peaceful. She was always upset about some slight, real or imagined, and more than capable of creating a full-blown crisis out of thin air.
~ Sara Gruen
The devil smiled: a slight man, unassuming, his hands knotted in the pockets of his beautiful coat.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I'm tiny. I'm small.
~ Claire Denis
I've always been relatively small in frame.
~ Nyjah Huston
Remember that in change, no matter how strange or slight the chance, all hope lies.
~ Michelle Sagara West
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
~ George R.R. Martin
The negative ego reminds you of every slight, every hurt, and every mistake, as well as of the insufficiency of your responses in order to install and maintain a fear-based reality.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Ah! Warriors' strength is poor and slight; A Bráhman's power is truly might. This Bráhman staff the hermit held The fury of my darts has quelled.
~ V?lm?ki
My wife's eyes sought mine for the old recognition, but found there a difference that would have been less nightmarish had it been less slight.
~ Glen Duncan
Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.
~ Thomas Haliburton
I had a nose tickle.
~ Chris Pine
Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight or an inadvertent trespass on someone else's turf might result in a thermonuclear response.
~ Dean Koontz
People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they've found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.
~ John Boyne
But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?
~ John Buchan
Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best — God! but the interest!
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar