Less Quotes
10086 Less quotes by 5567 unique authors
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
— Margaret Fuller
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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give…
— Harrison Ford
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Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands…
— Neil Postman
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It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of…
— Desmond Morris
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The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.
— Martina Navratilova
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Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the…
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
— Herodotus
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Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying…
— Garrett Hardin
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Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.
— Susan Sontag
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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
— Thomas Merton
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Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now…
— Diana Trilling
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The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that…
— George Matthew Adams
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One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or…
— Fay Weldon
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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
— Mark Strand
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
— Abraham Cowley
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
— Remy de Gourmont
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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants…
— Ken Burns
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The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
— Ernest Gaines
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The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget…
— Jose Marti
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I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually…
— Esther Dyson
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I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
— Esther Dyson
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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