Less Well Quotes

28 quotes by 28 authors

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I… — Claire Messud
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of… — Charles Baudelaire
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.… — Milton Friedman
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less… — Clara Barton
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some… — Robert Kennedy
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of… — Aldo Leopold
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. — Leon Kass
And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different… — Bill Konigsberg
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative… — Anais Nin
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than… — David Riesman
Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear,… — James F. Byrnes
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the… — Tom Vanderbilt
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy. — Eddie Izzard
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I… — Garrison Keillor
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you… — Marilyn vos Savant
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. — James D. Watson
In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all… — Robert Winston
The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may… — Julian Barnes

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