A Louisiana politician can’t afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman’s creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
People with success are less able to cope because you’re used to being on Mount Everest and when it’s gone, what do you do?
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
The cows in Stella Gibbons’s immortal ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on ‘Ocean’s Kingdom,’ the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.
Who laughs less than feminists?
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
In television you don’t have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it’s even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.
Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
Like all of Moore’s work, ‘V for Vendetta’ is considerably less than the sum of its parts.
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture – which I certainly would want to affirm – and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.
I couldn’t care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don’t care about what other people think is cool. I don’t care about image!
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.
I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, ‘Desperate Measures,’ and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn’t do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They’ve done less since. It all changed.
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain – grief, despair, depression, dementia – is less accessible to treatment. It’s connected to who we are – our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
If you’ve ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it’s just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it’s not.
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.
Less make-up is better, and it’s always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
I can’t even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.
Don’t get me wrong – what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
The Electoral College needs to go, because it’s made our society less and less democratic.
I pretty much only drink water, Tazo passion tea, or coffee with half and half, and it’s an ongoing joke in the office that I never have less than three glasses of water and some form of tea or coffee in front of me.
I hate to hear ‘Less is more.’ It’s a crock of crap.
Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
When we say ‘less fortunate,’ we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally ‘less fortunate’ only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
You can go to work and actually make someone else’s job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
