Less Quotes

I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

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.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.