Less Quotes
10086 quotes by 5567 authors
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Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.
— Unknown Author
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I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots…
— William Langewiesche
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Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure…
— H. L. Mencken
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Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore…
— Sarah Palin
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Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less…
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual:…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family…
— Roberto Cavalli
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It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business.…
— Julie Walters
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Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our…
— Barack Obama
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
— Peter O'Toole
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This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.
— David Foster Wallace
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Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
— Tom Cochrane
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When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes…
— Michael Shannon
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop…
— Jack Vance
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One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere…
— Elisabeth Moss
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You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than…
— Robinson Jeffers
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I…
— Stanley Kubrick
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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