Top 1200 Saying Less Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

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.

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

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

I'm not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.

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.

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

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

If you have less weight, you have less strength.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

Stop saying you're not racist because you have a friend that's black. That's like saying you're not a pedophile because you have a friend that's a kid.

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

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

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

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

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

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 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.

I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits.

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

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.

I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.

I think it's very important for children to understand that women work and that it's fulfilling, and it doesn't mean that they love you any less or care about you any less.

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

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

Even at 10 years old, Jonathan and I started saying things like, 'Hey, what about this for the property?' And I remember my parents saying, 'You're 10. What do you know about real estate? Go play with toys.'

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

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

Less coin, less care.

Gosh, I love saying Booyakasha! I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying Booyakasha.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.

People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

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.

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

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.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

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

My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how skinny he is.' I was cocky. But he beat me. After that fight I said to myself, man, this is going to be a tough job.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet. Two days later, I got a call from Lord Harewood, of the English National Opera, saying "Would you like to be in 'Ariadne auf Naxos?'"

The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures.

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.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Gosh, I love saying 'Booyakasha!' I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying 'Booyakasha.'