Top 660 Least Quotes

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems.

When I wrote ‘The Rozabal Line,’ I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed ‘The Rozabal Line’ as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.

Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it’s worth at least that much, or it’s worth zero.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

Asking questions about why I don’t want kids is really none of your business, but at least it’s a dialogue.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

When I came to Swansea, no one said to me: ‘Whatever happens you’re going to be No. 1.’ But I felt I would at least have the chance to start or be given an opportunity and then it would be up to me to take it.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Some days, I’d feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office – at least he doesn’t lie about the weather.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy’s levelling impulses could not be more acute.

I just want young people to read my books and feel cared for, feel safe, feel like there’s someone else in the world who understands – or at least acknowledges – your existence.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

If you find yourself waiting for the weekend to approach, then it means that you are not happy for at least five days a week.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

I’ve always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

I can’t solve the world’s problems, can’t even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Don’t worry if you don’t complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket… the least understood and the least noticed.

I don’t like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don’t like condescending people.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

We’ve been called the soundtrack of people’s lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive – we’re like a good book that people go back to.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I’m not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I’m an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

The Freedom Riders literally put their lives and limbs on the line in order to bring about an America that lives up to its own stated ideals. They are nothing short of American patriots, and honoring them more than 60 years after their historic acts is the least we can do.

I always cringe when people tell me they don’t eat breakfast, as though that’s a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active. Also, the mental game of ‘holding out,’ not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place.

A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn’t convince anyone.

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope – at least as I understand the usage – is more: science used other than literally.

I at least have to cut my hair. I can’t do the whole man bun, funky long hair thing anymore.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.

People in Hollywood don’t have that much sex, or at least I don’t.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

You’re allowed to have gravitas when you’ve got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you’re attractive and younger – or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you’re capable of productive thought.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‘How many wigs do you have?’ And I say, ‘Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.’

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it’s a very similar skillset.

I’ve never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn’t take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.