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Quotes About Less

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.
~ Roger Caillois
Love costs less than hate. (Told to Ma by her babysitter, Tirza the Winebath Girl.)
~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
the only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less
~ Philip C. Mcgraw
Less has booked himself into a Christian retreat center. He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood "Accentuate the Positive" was not in the Book of Common Prayer—
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Mescal turns out to be a drink that tastes as if someone has put their cigarette out in it. You drink it, he is informed, with an orange slice that has been coated in toasted worms. "You are kidding me," Less says, but they are not kidding him.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
the rescue. And today Less was one of them.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.
~ Saul Bellow
Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.
~ John Cage
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Moreover, my policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.
~ Elif Batuman
Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.
~ Drew Goddard
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~ Pearl Bailey
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
~ Rupert Murdoch
What you mean is, with God in the story there's a penalty, said Toby. Yes, said Adam One. There's a penalty without God in the story, too, needless to say. But people are less likely to credit that. If there's a penalty, they want a penalizer. They dislike senseless catastrophe.
~ Margaret Atwood
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
~ Marie Curie
How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?" - Seth Godin, sethgodin.com
~ Seth Godin
How long till our powers are back? (Kat) A few hours according to last time. (Sin) Sweet, and we have how long till the bitches awake? (Kat) Less than two. (Sin) Can you say screwed, boys and girls? Yes, I thought you could. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
some of their less well-to-do connections were glad to put up with the slight awkwardness of having her in the house for a short space, in consideration of the handsome boarding fee which was paid them for it.
~ Elizabeth Jenkins
The best way to get more tax from the rich is to cut rates. The best way to deliver more jobs for the less well off is to cut tax.
~ John Redwood
I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes!
~ Judy Blume
I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.
~ John McCain
Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.
~ Jaime Harrison
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
~ Samuel Butler
I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.
~ Kenneth Rogoff