Top 1200 Those Less Fortunate Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

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

President Reagan preached 'trickle down economics' but naively did not reckon on the fact that the wealthy would only care about getting more for themselves instead of caring about helping those with less.

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

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

Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.

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

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.

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

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

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

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.

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

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

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.

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

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

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

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

It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

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.

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

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.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

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

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.

To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed. And these facets are easily spotted because they show up as your symptoms.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm an entrepreneur trying to let the American people know that it's not immigrants that are causing economic problems, it is the fact that our economy is advancing in ways that is making human labor less and less essential.

I still have difficult days when I lose hours to anxiety, feeling my throat swell and my mind race with paranoid thoughts. But - thanks in part to ongoing therapy - they're happening less and less.

Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." He smiled them, seeming to have come back to himself, slightly embarrassed. "That's what I believe.

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

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.

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

And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

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

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

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

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

The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change: a society like that is one that is less free and less equal for everybody.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

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

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

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.