Least Quotes
7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors
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I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the…
— Thomas Malthus
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To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've…
— Ian Holloway
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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not…
— Edward Steichen
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
— H.G. Wells
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I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of…
— Larry Carlton
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In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that…
— Pete Gill
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Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be…
— Ruth Bernhard
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Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.
— Garth Crooks
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We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that…
— Brittany MacLean
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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
— Edmar Mednis
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I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to…
— Dave Barry
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The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk…
— John William Strutt
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
— Angelo Pellegrini
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O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in…
— Robin Winks
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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they…
— Havelock Ellis
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A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
— Antonin Scalia
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
— Elias Lyman Magoon
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I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!
— Barack Obama
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There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core…
— Tim McDonald
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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
— Susan Sontag
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