It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the result of misfortune and not deliberately imposed by authority.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
