Less Quotes

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

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 anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.