Less Quotes

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

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

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

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 that rut of production.

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.