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Quotes About Less

For me it is most often an immediate reaction; the more I look for something, the less chance there is for finding anything of value.
~ Ansel Adams
Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.
~ Shirley Hazzard
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
~ John Tillotson
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
~ Miroslav Vitous
I've argued for a much less instrumentalist politicized approach, freeing up the arts and enabling them to deliver high-quality projects.
~ Munira Mirza
The only group that is less self-aware than Hillary Clinton is the media.
~ Ronna McDaniel
He seems an agreeable creature. But that is how it is always! The less eligible a man is the more delightful he is bound to be! You may depend upon it.
~ Georgette Heyer
Now I see that it is Miss Rivenhall, whose beauty is entirely English; and that other one, also in the English estilo, but less beautiful. I do not think two chickens will be enough, so that man with the cold must eat
~ Georgette Heyer
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
~ John Podhoretz
I'm always down to share my secrets, share my beauty tips. Most of the stuff my fans never knew I get from CVS and stores like that. It's fun sharing all the stuff that I use! I don't use crazy stuff. There's always ways to do it for less.
~ Kylie Jenner
Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
~ Dan Quayle
I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.
~ Shane Carruth
Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)
~ Martha Minow
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
~ Alexander Pushkin
I was talking about pounding a nail in a board, it seems like there's a board there and all the nails are pounded in all over the place, you know, and every new person that comes to pound in a nail finds that there's one less space, you know. I hope we haven't got to the end of the space yet.
~ Jonathan Cott
Not surprisingly, this voluntary arrangement was less strict than one required by law might have been.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
~ Gus Van Sant
Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to have honours loaded on me.
~ Tony Harrison
I would love to see an adaptation of 'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer. It has all the things I want in a film; love, travel, humour.
~ Phoebe Fox
sees virtue, freedom in a less perfect union.
~ Gore Vidal
Some angels are like peacocks. Others are less flashy. Like city pigeons. It all depends on the wings.
~ Shelley Pearsall
Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.
~ Tibor Kalman
Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us
~ B.S. Johnson
The one thing you can trust is your kids will have more, not less. And now
~ Barbara Kingsolver