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Less Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
- When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams…
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
- I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of…
- But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
- We need much less than we think we need.
- Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your…
- The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like…
- Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your…
- If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if…
More Less Quotes
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen