Less Quotes
10086 quotes by 5567 authors
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Skill is less important than awareness.
— Graham Collier
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Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even…
— Sandy Smith
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a…
— William Melmoth
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Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we…
— John Updike
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be…
— Francis Chan
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There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad…
— Stephen Fry
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I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it as having nothing…
— Bryan Kest
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By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and…
— Amory Lovins
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those…
— Dean Koontz
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The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community…
— Wes Jackson
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Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way…
— Piero Ferrucci
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Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them,…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
— Robert Browning
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.
— Isaiah Berlin
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
— A.C. Grayling
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Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.
— Ranvir Shorey
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Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
— Derek Sivers
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there…
— Edmund Burke
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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