Least Quotes
7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors
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I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me…
— Keith Miller
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I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to…
— Margaret Mead
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Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
— James MacGregor Burns
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Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional…
— Unknown Author
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Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.
— Hoagy Carmichael
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It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be…
— Barack Obama
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If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at…
— Bud Grant
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Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But…
— Royal Robbins
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James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come…
— Dan Aykroyd
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... I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your…
— Joe Satriani
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends…
— Alexandre Kojeve
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having…
— Kevin Powers
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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a…
— Tracy Kidder
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But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell…
— Dennis Miller
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I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So…
— Carol Leifer
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Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your…
— George Muller
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So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted…
— Herbert Croly
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The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for…
— Tony Robbins
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A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up…
— Rosamond Lehmann
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some…
— Angus Wilson
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