Quotes of: Less Keyword

To whom can I put this question (with any hopes of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?

Mourning Diary

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

Memoirs of a Geisha

I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

Murder Grins and Bears It

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".

Man's Search for Meaning

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

The Message Remix

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Moth Smoke

When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The Moon and Sixpence

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe? Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.

Master of Stupidity

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

He said 'sorry,' They all fucking say sorry...Sorry is a word, it fixes nothing; it just makes the perpetrator feel a little less like the arsehole he is.

Never Ever After: Angel

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to ...

Natural Right and History

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

No Man Is an Island

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

The News: A User's Manual

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.

Oh the Glory of it All

...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

The Old Man in the Corner

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection