#slightest

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#defects #everything #excellent #forgive #general

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#end #felt #heard #i #joined

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. ↗

— Byron White

#death #death penalty #defendant #deprive #entitled

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#down #end #face #get #go

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. ↗

— Gary Player

#game #golf #haven #how #i

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. ↗

— John H. Speke

#africa #civilisation #describe #european #evil

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#emotion #like #mascara #men #run

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#amount #avail #honor #slightest #without