Less Quotes
10086 quotes by 5888 authors
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it…
— Paul Auster
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
— Richard Bach
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
— David Attenborough
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some…
— Saint Augustine
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
— Jane Austen
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
— Jane Austen
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
— Jane Austen
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is…
— Charles Babbage
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
— Sebastian Bach
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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