Lightly Quotations

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

We want to tread lightly on the planet,

We didn't take them lightly at all. A team like that has nothing to lose, so we decided to come out and play hard in the beginning.

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

The process will require a lot of research and time. The ultimate decision is one we will not take lightly or in a haphazard function. The terms of reference are designed to give us a total picture that will tell us whether they are ready for 2007 or not.

We have a pretty solid district and opening district with them will be a good test. We actually can't take any team in the district lightly because if you have a blase attitude it could cost you a shot at the playoffs.

Seymour Peck's editorial hand ranged far, wide and deep, touching lightly but expertly He seemed less an editor of any sort than the very best sort of guardian angel.

May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of His love.

One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.

Of course, the last 10 years have shaped who I am today, and I know that how I react to the last few days will also shape who I will become, but to be perfectly honest I'm not even close to looking on the bright side. I hope I will be able to, sooner than later, but this is the hardest thing I've had to deal with and I don't expect it to pass lightly or easily.

Frustration should not be lightly dismissed. It is a powerful ally. Frustration paves the road to Resignation. Resignation is the paradoxical home of an open, receptive mind - the base of enlightenment. Resignation is the back door to the results sought through Meditation.

I don't think anybody is taking anyone lightly anymore. The task at hand is more important than anything else. We understand two points is very huge every night for us.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity

He has no time for book learning or pussy-footing about. He wants to show these young men and women what they're up against - evil exists and they better know what they're getting themselves into. He's a one-man initiation ceremony, a walking rite-of-passage. He doesn't believe in treading lightly with Harry or the other students because that won't prepare them for the real world.

We just have to come prepared to play next week. And I mean that. We can't take New Orleans (3-12) lightly because they've given us problems before.

He just seems better than ever now. I didn't plan for the Derby. I planned for the end of (last) year to have a fresh 2-year-old, and I think it ended up a good plan. I have a lightly raced 3-year-old ready to go.

I think it's that time right now where we know every game is crucial and we're trying to win the Big Ten here. You can't win it with two losses and fortunately everyone has a loss now. So, every week is for the Big Ten championship and you can't take anyone lightly and you just got to keep playing hard.

It is lightly snowing right now, and were supposed to get a little more snow out of this storm.

O! who shall lightly say that fame/ is nothing but an empty name?

It definitely is an honor to be counted on and be seen as a leader. It's a responsibility you don't take lightly and I try to make sure I am always accountable for my actions and to this basketball team. I have been here the longest of anyone and I know what coach Davis expects. I have tried to pass that along to the incoming players.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

Whitebait is New Zealand's caviar and is special. Everybody likes eating whitebait, especially lightly cooked in fritters.

We don't take lightly missing those two particular targets.

Typically, the problem there is the sensitivity to the cuff, the squeezing of it, they can bruise very easily. Ours won't do that, we're just going on the wrist and we're squeezing very lightly in comparison.

Treading lightly with the water we've got and waiting for more will ensure that there's plenty when summer comes.

When fully deployed, it will include 8,000 lightly equipped troops, but will also include engineering and medical expertise,

This study is strong evidence that lightly regulated, competitive markets are the most efficient and cost effective way to deliver consumers the innovative products they want and need, and in doing so, the industry is able to create enormous economic benefits in the form of job creation and tax revenue,

We weren't clicking on all cylinders, but in the third quarter we stretched the lead from nine to 20 points. The team did a good job against Westland. We learned a tough lesson about taking a team too lightly earlier this season.

We can't take anybody lightly right now. They have a really good shooting team and once they get going, it's hard to stop them.

Fifa hasn't taken a decision to cancel lightly but sporting considerations are crucial.

We see more and more guns not getting routine maintenance. At the end of the season, (a hunter) should clean the barrel of all that residue and lightly oil it; external surfaces, too.

You can never take any hockey club lightly and we haven't thus far and we don't want to now. Sweden is a great hockey club and they can put together 60 great minutes, well we saw it today. (An upset) can happen to anyone. They've got great goaltending and some great skilled players so we have to be ready.

We got a nice break with the first match being at home. I certainly don't take it lightly that we're playing Romania because they have a solid team.

We go out and don't take game-planning lightly and we don't take our jobs lightly. In saying all of that, I really do feel like we have a great shot to get to where we need to be this year.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Twirl around Piglet, Step lightly Pooh, This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

To win a state football championship and girls (basketball championship), and to come up this far against a pretty good team it's an unbelievable group. We didn't take those kids lightly at all.

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

At the beginning of the semester I told the players that at mid-semester if the grades weren't good then there were going to be punishments. There's no reason for this to happen. We have study hall twice a week and a free tutoring service. I think a lot of the guys took it lightly and they got surprised.

At the time of our last earnings call, we estimated industry numbers to be lightly up against last year given the introduction of two new platforms. It now appears that the overall market will be down in the double digits. The demand curve has shifted abruptly.

And you also can create the life you want. 'Follow your bliss' is not lightly said. There will be consequences and choices to make, but there's integrity in following what you know you should be doing for yourself.

There's no possible way I'd be ready to pitch (in the World Baseball Classic). Trust me, I'd love to have the chance to represent my country, that's everyone's dream to hold the flag. But I would have had to start throwing by mid-December to be in game shape by then and I've just started to throw lightly now.

SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.His bad opponent's ""facts"" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. --Polydore Smith

Coming out here and taking teams lightly will get us beaten. They threw the ball up and had some fun with it. It's not as if they were just lining up and saying 'Come and get him.' We all know if they did that, they wouldn't have had success throwing the ball. We gave up easy plays defensively. To make things easy is frustrating.

Anything that impairs our ability to communicate with members is something we don't take lightly ? our members are likely to have a very negative reaction to this as well. If AOL actually pulls the trigger on this plan, a boycott would be our response.

That unit, which we've been testing, can clean a minimum of 100,000 gallons of lightly contaminated water a day for people in Mississippi or Louisiana, wherever it's needed.

You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle.

This is a team that really gets up for this series, and it's a great series to play in and watch. You definitely can't take the Cubs lightly at all.

This is not something they've undertaken lightly or frivolously.

This gives us no pleasure, ... Canada is not a nation that rushes to embrace the use of force. We do not lightly endorse military action. For us it is always the last resort.

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

They make decisions that will outlive all of us. It's not a body to be taken lightly and it needs to be populated by the most dedicated, most capable, and most principled among us. I believe the city council is obligated to the citizens we serve to fill the planning commission seats with the best persons possible.

They (GAC) took us too lightly right away. I think after the first period they realized they needed to start playing much harder to beat us.

They are a team that you cannot take lightly because you see how well they played last season to stay in the league. We want to go there and play as hard as possible to get maximum points.

There is no way in the world that anybody would take this team lightly at all.

There's always a danger that you take it lightly but I've got a lot of experienced players and I don't expect that.

At first, people probably took us lightly because we're a mid-major. People don't respect us enough to take us seriously. We'd probably have to get back here year after year to get that respect.

It's too early to tell. In this particular case and with the dollars that you're talking about, you have to walk very lightly and be mindful.

It's good learning for us this weekend. It's a tight race down to the end in the WCHA, and it doesn't matter who we're playing or where we're playing. We can't take any game lightly the rest of the year.

It's easy to take a team like South Africa lightly because we didn't know anything about them. But we didn't and we played well today.

It's a very lightly visited wilderness park, so people who are specifically interested in getting away from it all can really get away from it all in Isle Royale.

It's something you cannot take lightly at all. And I don't take it lightly.

Everyone has been practicing with a lot of intensity this past week. We are not taking things lightly against two top-20 teams.

It's hard to call the games off when it's lightly snowing. It's not freezing on the streets yet.

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

It teaches us we can?t go out there and take teams lightly and stop playing. Hopefully this gives us a valuable lesson that we have to take every team seriously.

They work very well today in an environment where the networks are admittedly lightly loaded ... and I'm not only talking about mine, I'm talking about everyone's network. At some point, in order to provide you the same grade of service for that application, we're going to have to differentiate the grades of service.

In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room

In essence, the D.C. District Court of Appeals said the rights of terminally ill cancer patients must be protected and not dismissed lightly -- and we completely agree.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love

Instead of pressing hard with the bow, you press lightly and you go faster. That will affect the balance.

I didn't know they beat Kansas. I didn't even watch the tournament last year until the Final Four. But I've heard of the school. I watched them play on television once. I know they are a good team. I know we are not going to take them lightly just because our name seems to be a little bit bigger. We know they are going to come ready to play just like we are.

I asked around yesterday, but I don't know anything about them. I know they have a pretty good record. I don't think we can take anybody lightly right now.

I don't think we can decide lightly on this very serious issue.

He's not going to give in lightly to being sick. He's going to fight it hard.

He absolutely had a dominant year at Buffalo last year. And he's come in here and shown that he aggressively wants to compete for this job. We don't take lightly that year he had at Buffalo.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

You can't take any team lightly in the playoffs. That was a heck of a game last year, and we were just fortunate to come out with a win -- and they have four of their five starters back.

You can't take anybody lightly now. You're just asking for trouble.

You can't take anybody lightly because you can get blown out easily in this league. Everybody's in there for a reason. Everybody's getting a paycheck, and everybody's doing what they're supposed to do because that's their job. A lot of guys got to play who haven't been able to play for a while.

The kids are realizing what they did, but they know that we can't look ahead. They know how competitive District 4 is and we can't take anyone lightly any week.

The juveniles were faster than the adults they were longer-legged and more lightly built.

The independent directors -- and believe me, we did not take this lightly -- made a decision to change management and leadership of the company.

(The district) is going to be tougher. It doesn't get easier from here. You can't take anyone lightly because, as soon as you do that, that's when they come after you. I like that though because it makes me get tougher.

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee