Less Quotes

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.