#slightest

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #intention #mean #out #practice

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #hasn #intention #man #means

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

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#experience #government #government spending #just #much

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

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

— Kabir Bedi

#emotion #like #mascara #men #run

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility. ↗

— Robert Welch

#days #equal #fact #fiercely #hostility

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there. ↗

— Shaun White

#anybody #board #consistency #flick #flying

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#difference #feeling #found #get #i

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

#attention span #away #books #could #distraction