More Or Less Quotes
160 quotes by 153 authors
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it…
— Paul Auster
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of…
— Annie Besant
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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
— Alvar Aalto
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring…
— William S. Burroughs
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting,…
— Summer Altice
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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and…
— Wes Anderson
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
— Alice James
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I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
— Casper Van Dien
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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
— Althea Gibson
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
— Margaret Oliphant
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Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the…
— Isabelle Huppert
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I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in…
— David Cross
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James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you…
— Leslie Caron
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I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew…
— Diane Cilento
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A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into…
— Laurie Anderson
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Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has…
— Christian Lous Lange
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