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Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
— John Wooden
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
— Edgar Degas
If I were to receive a pair of the blessed prophetic sandals to place on my head, then I shall consider myself no less than a fully crowned king.
— Anonymous
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
— Roger L'Estrange
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
— Esther Dyson
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
— Raymond E. Feist
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
— C.S. Lewis
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .
— Timothy Keller
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of
illusion. — L. E. J. Brouwer
illusion. — L. E. J. Brouwer
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
— Carol P. Christ
'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
— John Mahoney
Nothing less than seven inches, that's my motto. - Isabelle Lightwood
— Cassandra Clare
The God King's wrath, she thought drowsily, is decidedly less wrathful than reported.
— Brandon Sanderson
It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.
— Sheila Kohler
People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.
— Jon Voight
Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.
— Stephanie Mbida
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.
— Lee DeWyze
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
— Beryl Markham
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.
— Fred Rogers
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
— Criss Jami
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
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
— Flannery O'Connor
I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.
— Anna Akana
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
— Charles Lamb
Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.
— William McDavid
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
— Harold Clarke Goddard
The Little War?
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less? — Margarita Engle
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less? — Margarita Engle
The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.
— Winston Churchill
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
— Elbert Hubbard
The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.
— N. T. Wright
The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
— G. Willow Wilson
If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
If what I want is a little less big, less noble than what he wants... does that make me the loser?
— Huntley Fitzpatrick
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
— Christina, Queen Of Sweden
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".
— John B. S. Haldane
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
— Jeremiah Seed
Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
— Charles M. Blow
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
— Jill Robinson
I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.
— Mike Singletary
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
— James Hillman
To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
— Anthony Marra
Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.
— Mary McCarthy
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.
— Frederick Lenz
B2FH traces these various fusion reactions and explains the recipe for producing everything up to iron: it's nothing less than evolution for elements.
— Sam Kean
...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.
— Caitlin Doughty
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
— Hilaire Belloc
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
— Lemony Snicket
Just make sure you never do less than your best
— Walt Disney
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Success has less to teach us than does the journey to achieve it
— Bobby Darnell
Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are.
— Matt Haig
I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.
— Douglas Pagels
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
— Billy Corgan
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still, I was alive.
— J.K. Rowling
When you've had less than little in some things, you're grateful for even a spoonful of more.
— Nora Roberts
Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.
— Carlton D. Pearson
I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me.
— Ally Condie
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
— Robert Henri
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
— Majora Carter
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
— Maya Lin
Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less.
— Anne Fortier
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
— Brian Tracy
I hope that death contains
less than this. — Charles Bukowski
less than this. — Charles Bukowski
How did they go from Braveheart to Brigadoon in less than five minutes?
— Jennifer Silverwood
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
— Derrick A. Bell
I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.
— Al Franken
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
— Babette Deutsch
But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance.
— BikeSnobNYC
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
— Mark Twain
I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
— Marcel Proust
Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.
— Taron Egerton
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.
— Jacques Pierre Brissot
Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey
~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey
Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65).
— Joe Navarro
The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.
— Adam Smith
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
— Aristotle.
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
— Bertrand Russell
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
— Philip James Bailey