Far Less Quotes
152 Far Less quotes by 140 unique authors
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It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking…
— Susan Sarandon
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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
— Confucius
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I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur.…
— David Sarnoff
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I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far…
— William Walker
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Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day,…
— Armstrong Williams
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Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
— Dwight Morrow
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It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
— Jean Giraudoux
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Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.
— Brad Meltzer
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Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to…
— Helmut Schoeck
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Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
— Eric Hoffer
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps…
— James Agee
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Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to…
— Derek Bok
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact.…
— Mary Webb
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I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in…
— Adrien Brody
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get…
— Rebecca Solnit
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To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
— Edward Gibbon
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In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to…
— George Orwell
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With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed…
— Ed Helms
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