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7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree… — Dinaw Mengestu
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith… — Lionel Trilling
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. — Edward Abbey
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the… — Edward Abbey
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. — Martin Amis
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start… — John Banville
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be… — Douglas Adams
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,… — Thomas Paine
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be… — Annie Leibovitz
I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects… — Orson Scott Card
The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times,… — Ray Bradbury
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of… — James Madison
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of… — Charles M. Schulz
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to… — John Dewey
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer,… — Daniel Defoe
I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people… — Amy Winehouse
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least… — Angela Merkel
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives,… — Karl Marx
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. — Homer
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least… — Hans Christian Andersen

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