Lesser Quotes

306 quotes by 275 authors

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone. — Roseanne Barr
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do… — Roseanne Barr
I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to… — Roseanne Barr
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack. — Takeda Nobushige
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just… — Aberjhani
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. — Tupac Shakur
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. — Phyllis Rose
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play… — Pete Sampras
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more… — Marcel Proust
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. — Rose Macaulay
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony. — Confucius
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. — Confucius
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.… — Theodore Levitt
When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be… — Laozi
We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. — Robert Breault
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor… — John Denham
So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which… — Roger McDonald

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