Less Quotes
10086 Less quotes by 5567 unique authors
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Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less…
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual:…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family…
— Roberto Cavalli
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It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business.…
— Julie Walters
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Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our…
— Barack Obama
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
— Peter O'Toole
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This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.
— David Foster Wallace
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Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.
— Tom Cochrane
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When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes…
— Michael Shannon
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop…
— Jack Vance
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One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere…
— Elisabeth Moss
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You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than…
— Robinson Jeffers
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I…
— Stanley Kubrick
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food,…
— P.D. James
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People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot…
— Sara Paretsky
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That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no…
— Nelson Mandela
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which…
— Pablo Picasso
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing
— Dante Alighieri
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In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my…
— Jeffery Deaver
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The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties…
— Galileo Galilei
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It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop,…
— David Ogilvy
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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