Quotes with lightly

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  • Thomas Paine What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bianca Marroquin As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Sophocles Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Buchan He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Stuart Chase I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
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  • John Cleese I got off lightly. Think what I’d have had to pay Alyce if she had contributed anything to the relationship - such as children, or a conversation.
    John Cleese
    English actor, comedian and producer (1939 - )
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  • Andrew Taylor Still I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Kehlog Albran It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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  • Buddha Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not benefit me. Even by the falling of waterdrops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a family because that's not something I take lightly. Acting meant so much to me.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Thomas Paine That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Dorothy Parker This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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