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The people of Ember were just as grubby as the people of Sparks; everyone looked more or less the same.
— Jeanne DuPrau
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
— Althea Gibson
If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
— Pete Sampras
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
— Terry Pratchett
We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
— M. Scott Peck
Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea
— Haruki Murakami
Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.
— Stephen Mangan
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
— Frederick Douglass
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash ... nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
— Ben Feldman
The more people trust in God, the less will they trust their own judgments, or interfere with the ordering of events.
— George MacDonald
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .
— Timothy Keller
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.
— William E. Conway Jr.
Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn.
— Fredio Samples
Bullets like cocks, came in a variety of different sizes and length but were all more or less the same shape.
— Nicole Castle
Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.
— Kevin Focke
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
— H.L. Mencken
An artist is one of two things: he is either a high priest, or a more or less smart entertainer. - GIUSEPPE MAZZINI
— Leo Tolstoy
Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.
— Martin O'Malley
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
— Kyrie Irving
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 more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
— Duncan Sheik
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
— Matthew Arnold
With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.
— Dennis Prager
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
— Jean Piaget
Birth control is nothing more or less than ... weeding out the unfit.
— Margaret Sanger
More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!
— Shah Moazzem
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.
— Albert Ellis
I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know ...
— Arthur Miller
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
— Eugene Delacroix
I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
— Casper Van Dien
Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
— Donald Judd
Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
— Alice James
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
— Benjamin Franklin
The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.
— Nick Saban
More or Less Love Poems #11:
No babe
We'd never
Swing together but
the syncopation
would be something wild — Diane Di Prima
No babe
We'd never
Swing together but
the syncopation
would be something wild — Diane Di Prima
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
— Donald Fagen
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.
— Frederick Lenz
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
— Pablo Picasso
The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!
— Abraham Kuyper
Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less.
— Jim Butcher
Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.
— Maya Angelou
Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
— Graham Chapman
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
— Joseph Joubert
All eminently godly people have been more or less addicted to fasting.
— Thomas Cartwright
The more hungry she got, the less other worries bothered her. Eating was a problem for now. Being killed by Denth or Vasher was a problem for later.
— Brandon Sanderson
I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Histories are like novels in that they set out to provide more or less comprehensive accounts of social systems.
— Mikhail Bakhtin
But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.
— George Orwell
When your world feels like it's been shattered to a million pieces, it doesn't hurt any less or more because of the details.
— Erin Emerson
I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.
— Domenico Dolce
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
— Vladimir Lenin
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.
— Scott Rudin
Looked as if the various parts of its more or less humanoid body didn't quite fit properly.
— Douglas Adams
God's love never ceases. Never ... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.
— Max Lucado
God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done.
— Rick Warren
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
— Bob Riley
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
History is more or less bunk.
— Henry Ford
think if more people understood the reality, they'd be less inclined to classify the lifestyle as abusive, or demeaning. Those
— Jason Luke
A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves.
— Stephen Fry
I swim more or less every day.
— Jane Asher
What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
— Carlo Collodi
Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
— Robert Breault
Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
— Andreas Moritz
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
— Robert Henri
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
— Irwin Shaw
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
— Tamsin Greig
You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have. - JIM MOTT
— Anthony Robbins
Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..
— Dixie Lee Ray
I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.
— Amy Carmichael
They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.
— Bernard Wolfe
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
— John Updike
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
— Edward Young
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
— Paul Valery
Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.
— Lawrence Kushner
They'd made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they'd hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.
— James S.A. Corey
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.
— Don Paterson
The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky