Top 1200 Saying Less Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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 these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

When you have a guy like Chris Paul, who's the best point guard in the world, saying I should be an All-Star, and other coaches and players coming up to me and saying I should be an All-Star, it's an unbelievable compliment.

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

It's just being me, man... If you get caught up in people saying you're good and people saying this or that, good or bad, it can kind of wear on you. Or it'll make you feel like you're better than what you are.

I can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist and go, "Boy that's...I wish we could be saying that. That's exactly the way we see it and that's exactly the way we'd like to be saying that." And I always think, "Well, why don't you?"

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.

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

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

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.

If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

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.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.

People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'.

Since the truth may not be what we would prefer. It is revealing that so many people today express approval by saying, "I'm comfortable with that," and disapproval by saying, "I'm not comfortable with that." Comfort is important when it comes to furniture and headphones, but it is irrelevant when it comes to truth.

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.

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

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.

Whenever you say 'yes' to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your 'yes' is worth the less.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'

I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation. I think that's given me a renewed confidence in speaking out loud. I kind of don't care what people think about me. I feel a lot more confident in saying what I believe.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think that's the reason why I'm proud to play for Belgium - because I can take ownership. I'm not saying that I'm not proud of being Congolese as well - but I'm saying this is also my country, and anything that happens in my country, I want to have a say.

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

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

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

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

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

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