Least Quotes
7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
— Plutarch
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Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
— Dan Quayle
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism,…
— Hugo Chavez
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom…
— Sherwood Anderson
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As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
— Thom Yorke
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All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark…
— Thom Yorke
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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
— Thornton Wilder
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The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force,…
— Sol LeWitt
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Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic…
— Poul Anderson
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]…
— Michael Moorcock
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You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got…
— Alfred Bester
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Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired…
— Emanuel Lasker
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A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,…
— Joy Harjo
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I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for…
— Josh Turner
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist.…
— Napoleon Hill
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I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I…
— Thelonious Monk
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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government…
— Meg Whitman
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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it…
— Eric Carle
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No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are…
— Mark Helprin
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