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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
— Graham Greene
The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.
— Katherine Reay
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
— Timothy Noah
Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.
— Merlin Mann
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
— Maurice Duplessis
Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
— Alex Flinn
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
— Immaculee Ilibagiza
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?
— Marco Pierre White
The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.
— Catherine Marshall
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
— Lord Byron
Governments are bigger than ever, but under neoliberalism they have far less pretense to being concerned with addressing non-corporate interests. And
— Noam Chomsky
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
— Alain De Botton
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
— Jack Welch
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
— Norbert Wiener
The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.
— Robyn Carr
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.
— Jessica Alba
Wendelin the Weird enjoyed being burned so much that she allowed herself to be caught no less than forty-seven times in various disguises.
— J.K. Rowling
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
— Criss Jami
I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.
— Russell Crowe
The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.
— Leah Hager Cohen
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
— Pierre Bayle
But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life.
— Hal Elrod
You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.
— Gabrielle Roth
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
— Konrad Lorenz
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
— Aldous Huxley
NO one deserves anything less than being loved.
— Demi Lovato
What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
— Jodi Picoult
If it weren't for Julia Child, I might never have moved past brown rice and tofu. Worse, I might still be afraid of being less than perfect.
— Julia Child
True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.
— Mike Mason
I've sometimes thought that being loved a little less than others can actually make a person, rather than ruin them.
— Paula McLain
Being courageous is less painful than being unhappy
— Steven Aitchison
There's the kind of love where being around someone makes you feel energized. Just being around them gives you more energy than less.
— Mason Jennings
You work hard because you're smart and you know you can do it, don't let some idiot bully you into being less than you are.
— Justin Robinson
Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
— Catherynne M Valente
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
— A. E. Hotchner
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
— Pierre Bayle
Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable.
— Pearl Zhu
Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady
Tremaine. — Sherry Thomas
Tremaine. — Sherry Thomas
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
— Toby Young
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
— Luc De Clapiers
The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.
— Caroline Knapp
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
— David Blunkett
I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.
— Gilbert Gottfried
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
— Craig Groeschel
I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
— Ray Winstone
I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
— Kevin Garnett
She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
— Fulton J. Sheen
She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.
— Jane Austen
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.
— Robert Payne
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
— Abraham H. Maslow
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
— Richard Ford
Being yourself takes less energy than being someone else.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No one is your judge now,' Mavriky Nikolayevich stated firmly, 'may God forgive you; I'm less worthy than anyone of being your judge!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology.
— Heidi Julavits
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
— Denis Diderot
If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.
— Elizabeth Gillies
Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
— Charles M. Blow
Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .
— Spencer Johnson
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
— Eric Metaxas
He didn't love her. They were together for the obvious and timeless reason: It was slightly less painful than being alone.
— Gary Shteyngart
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
— Margaret Atwood
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
— Annie Dillard
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
— John Boorman
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
— Tift Merritt
Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.
— Dee Williams
Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.
— Brownell Landrum
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
— Natalie Goldberg
I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.
— Elliott Smith
It is hard to conceive of any relationship between two adults in America being less equal than that of prisoner and prison guard.
— Piper Kerman