Less Quotes
10086 quotes by 5567 authors
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
— Fredrik Bajer
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Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
— Shirin Ebadi
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Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I…
— Brad Thor
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I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of…
— Jules Henry
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Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a…
— Anthony Eden
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Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that…
— Thomas Andrews
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Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require…
— Forrest Church
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I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I…
— Gordon Brown
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If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and…
— Dustin Lance Black
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Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction.…
— Lucian Freud
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Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority…
— Phil Jackson
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I would say that I am having less sex now that I’m playing in Serie B – there is more to think about in this…
— Gianluigi Buffon
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Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
— Stanislaw Ulam
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The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch…
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
— Martin Seligman
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The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.
— Jim DeRogatis
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