Less Quotes

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.