The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
It's the greatest of Southern honors. . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.
Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.
Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.
I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind. )Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew. . . | Hooded by a dark sense of destination. . . | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.
Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.