Less Quotes
10086 Less quotes by 5567 unique authors
-
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any…
— Leon Trotsky
-
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most…
— Edward Gibbon
-
A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with…
— G. H. Hardy
-
I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach…
— Marc Benioff
-
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of…
— Hermann Hesse
-
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the…
— Mohsin Hamid
-
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times?…
— Pearl S. Buck
-
But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was…
— Andrea Camilleri
-
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could…
— Rachel Boston
-
Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering…
— Jerry I. Porras
-
If I killed them, you know, they couldn't reject me as a man. It was more or less making a doll out of a human…
— Edmund Kemper
-
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and…
— Leon M. Lederman
-
Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near…
— William Dampier
-
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
-
When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This…
— Bernie Siegel
-
That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.
— Katie Couric
-
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that…
— Walter Lippmann
-
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the…
— Todd Tiahrt
-
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
-
Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent…
— L. Neil Smith
-
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive…
— Martin Feldstein
-
Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is…
— Westbrook Pegler
-
The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
— Ezra Pound
-
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the…
— Tom Wicker
Who Wrote These Less Quotes
5,567 authors contributed a total of 10,086 Less Quotes, led by these top contributors: