Less Quotes
10086 Less quotes by 5567 unique authors
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The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some…
— Jessica Valenti
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If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.
— David Riesman
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The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time for us.
— Chase Utley
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God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and…
— The Rev
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Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free…
— John F. Kennedy
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In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome…
— Walter Lippmann
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ...
— William Shakespeare
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Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
— William Shakespeare
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Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
— Eric Hoffer
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We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is…
— Marcel Proust
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I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to…
— Marcel Proust
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When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as…
— Marcel Proust
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Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice…
— Fran Lebowitz
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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
— Aristotle
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
— Oscar Wilde
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to…
— Oscar Wilde
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
— Bill Vaughan
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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be…
— Oscar Wilde
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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential…
— John Updike
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There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a…
— Joyce Brothers
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