Lest Quotes

The simplest things are often the truest.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.