Less Quotes

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.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.