Top 100 Less Than Quotes
#1. always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.
Michael Pollan
#2. On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#4. My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
Tom Robbins
#6. I once heard [Gerald] Feinberg suggest that many of Manhattan's 1970s social problems could be solved by forbidding anyone who earned less than, say, $10,000 per year to live there. It had not occurred to him, apparently, that this excluded many of the people who worked at the university.
Emanuel Derman
#7. The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Bill Dedman
#8. Certitude is strength and suspicion is worthless, and worry over suspicion is something less than that. I
R.A. Salvatore
#9. Whoever defends himself will have himself for defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.
A.W. Tozer
#10. He looked at the cop. He'd known the man less than a day, didn't trust him, and wasn't sure he much liked him. And this was who he'd die with.
James S.A. Corey
#11. Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
Brandon Stanton
#12. Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
Henry Ford
#14. Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.
Robyn Schneider
#15. What about a warning system?" Heloise said.
"The entire encounter lasted less than five seconds, Hel. I doubt that even with your admirable ability to sprint in heels, you would have been able to get there in time.
Gina Damico
#16. Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should.
Mary E. Pearson
#17. We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Maya Lin
#18. Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
Athanasius
#19. You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Arnold Bennett
#20. I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
Sam Mendes
#21. If you think you are less than what you really are, the world around will make you look even lesser than what you think!
Rajuda
#22. The Bible talks about bestiality even less than it talks about homosexuality, but that doesn't make bestiality an insignificant issue - or incest or child abuse or fifty other sins the Bible barely addresses.
Kevin DeYoung
#23. Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
George Carlin
#25. Being average means to settle for less than you truly want and are capable of, and to struggle for your entire life.
Hal Elrod
#26. I'd be alone the rest of my life before I'd settle for less than a man that flat out adored me.
R.K. Lilley
#27. Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Charles E. Wilson
#28. A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.
Etty Hillesum
#29. What's insane is a ten percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary war began on less than two percent. How is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage? We must do something.
Ichabod
#31. Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.
W.C. Fields
#32. You're welcome, you know." "For what?" Rhys paused less than a foot away, sliding his hands into his pockets. The night didn't seem to ripple from him here - and he appeared, despite his perfection, almost normal. "For saving you when asked." I
Sarah J. Maas
#34. If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.
Shane Claiborne
#35. The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
Agatha Christie
#36. It's 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will it still be with us in 50 years? I would predict yes. But by that point, it will be men who will be earning less than women.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#37. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,
N.D. Wilson
#38. A few years ago, before I stopped drinking, I was feeling very sorry for myself and very drunk, and I Googled 'Moby Sucks'. In less than one second something like 20 million responses came up ... yeah, there has been a lot of loathing directed towards me, and it used to drive me crazy.
Moby
#39. It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.
Susan Orlean
#40. Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
Erica Jong
#41. More than ever, we are dealing with the history of the masses, and no history of individuals. Less than ever, it is possible to predict the near future ...
Andrei I. Shingarev
#42. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
William Shakespeare
#43. That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Solon
#44. Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
Christopher McDougall
#45. What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.
Gloria Steinem
#46. Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
Terence McKenna
#47. A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems
William Buell Sprague
#48. I know that life is not simple because I am not simple. In fact, I am learning that I am more than simple and less than normal. To fall in love with a boy is one thing, but to fall in love with you best friend's boy because of a dream is ... well, I'm fucked.
Tarryn Fisher
#49. BEFORE CRITICIZING A WOMAN'S BODY, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NO LESS THAN SALMAN KHAN, HRITHIK ROSHAN OR BRAD PITT.
Upasana Banerjee
#50. I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence
Paul Morabito
#51. For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; and the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.
Bill Jensen
#54. Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
Tony Abbott
#55. Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?
John Guillebaud
#56. The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.
Kenneth C. Frazier
#57. I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.
Ray Bradbury
#58. Then it sounds to me like you love her. And if you love her, then tell her she belongs to you and she needs to get over it. Show her who's in charge. That's what I did with Sara.
Zach seemed less than pleased when they all laughed so hard Conall actually fell off the bed.
Shelly Laurenston
#59. My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!
Henny Youngman
#60. Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
Candace Bushnell
#61. It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
Homer
#62. I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?
Si Robertson
#63. Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships ... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.
Wayne Muller
#64. In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Karl Lagerfeld
#65. One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.
Saladin Ahmed
#66. I've cleaned the house once (that's one more than I usually clean it) and I've checked the time on the clock no less than a thousand times.
Colleen Hoover
#67. Some of the service-dog organizations raising animals for the disabled, for example, will start five hundred to a thousand well-bred puppies a year - only to have less than 50 percent achieve an appropriate level of working ability.
Raymond Coppinger
#68. Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.
Robertson Davies
#69. That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.
Joseph O'Connor
#70. we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#71. I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.
R H Sin
#72. Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. If she could not accept me, who could? If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise?
Alex Tizon
#73. Your grandma always was an advocate of thorough preparedness. She would strongly advise staying not only armed to the teeth, but well equipped in the computational department. You've been taught you should really carry no less than 5 computers on you at all times, like a sensible person.
Andrew Hussie
#74. As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
Rob Lowe
#75. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.
Conn Iggulden
#76. And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased.
Lauren Oliver
#77. The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.
N. T. Wright
#78. I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.
Elliott Smith
#79. Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.
Robert C. Martin
#80. I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.
Isabelle Huppert
#82. Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
Bernie Sanders
#83. ... my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.
Susan Kuklin
#84. Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling."
"I didn't mean no harm," I said and kissed her. "That a new dress?"
"Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.
Dashiell Hammett
#85. Are you a hero, actually?"
"Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.
Terry Pratchett
#86. careful evaluation of various surveys has taken place and support the idea that the number of qualified scientists believing global warming is primarily man-made is less than three percent - rather than ninety-seven percent.
Sally Fernandez
#87. I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I
Adam Rex
#88. From naive, lonely princess to winner of hearts and minds less than a month, Jasmine managed to make people feel at ease with her while still maintaining her rule as leader.
Liz Braswell
#89. Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#90. The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.
Katherine Reay
#91. The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Nigel Mansell
#92. After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.
Jaime Lerner
#93. Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
George Bernard Shaw
#94. Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female. We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher, rather than accept a vision of ourselves as less-than-divine inferiors.
Layne Redmond
#96. A community ceases to be so once the members of it become less than resolute in their support of each other. Many of
Sandra Gregory
#97. The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
#98. Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist
Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me
It's less than likely,
Move back,
Let I breathe Jedi knight,
The more space I get the better I write,
(Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write,
I need the space to say whatever I like.
Jay-Z
#99. The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
Phyllis Bottome
#100. How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
Mark Twain
