Top 1200 Road Less Travelled Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Once you get a perfect score, you don't want anything less. When you get less, then I guess it's time to step aside.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

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.

But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.

We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.

I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.

As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important.

I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.

Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.