Quotes About Less

All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I'm blessed, and yeah, I'm planning to go to Heaven.

If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.

There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter.

Really, personally, makeup is cool to wear less and light on the eye and just go colorful on the lips.

The pressure of chasing 230 is naturally always less compared to chasing 300.

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show less in a movie, you've got to figure out more.

You eventually have to return there to get most ordinary jobs done, but even those you will now do in a less compulsive or driven way.

This is still less stressful than working in publishing.

Alarm, when used for anything less than a fire or an air attack, is certain to muddle the mind, unsettle the senses, and, in most cases, more than double the danger.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

It's the rare God who needs less stroking that a rock Star or poetician ...

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'

I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone.

All good things in life will come to you, as our Swedish friends say, if you: Fear less, Hope more; Whine less, Breathe more; Talk less, Say more; Hate less, Love more. And all good things are yours!

One of the early pieces of advice I had as a General Authority was that "we ought to have great music in the Church and more of it, coupled with great speaking in the Church and less of it.

Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.