Less Quotes - page 4

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. View quote
Bolesław Prus
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. View quote
Maureen Dowd
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. View quote
Ernest Renan
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
I was never less alone than when by myself. View quote
Edward Gibbon
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. View quote
Bruce Lee
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. (Robert E. Lee)
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. View quote
Gore Vidal
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. View quote
Gore Vidal
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. View quote
Robert Frost
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. View quote
Margaret Mead
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. View quote
Gertrude Stein
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream... View quote
Gustave Moreau
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. (Joseph Addison)
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. View quote
Alice Walker
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. View quote
Lily Tomlin
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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