Nothing Less Than Quotes

#1. humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not talk and looks nothing like them, why can they not love one another? Certainly,

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#2. Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Charles Lamb

#3. In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

#4. Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

Margaret Sanger

#5. Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

John Updike

#6. Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. They went and found somewhere, and had a sorting out, nothing held back. Sometimes nothing less than savage discharge can express, can explain, can release the hard, hard place we're in.

Gwyneth Jones

#8. It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.

Robin Wasserman

#12. The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity ...

A. Edward Newton

#13. When you have a person in your life who effortlessly make you feel like the most magnificent entity in the universe, there is only one other who has the power of making you feel less than nothing. Ironically enough, it is always that very same individual.

Carl Henegan

#14. The meaning of culture is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

John Cowper Powys

#15. Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.

Lewis Carroll

#16. Thus, for Aquinas, the New Law goes beyond the Sermon on the Mount and the other teachings of Jesus. It is nothing less than divine grace - divine life and power. Grace is the New Law that enables us to keep the commandments in a way that we as children of Adam couldn't on our own.

Scott Hahn

#17. Elders pass harsh judgments on people who have committed the same sins that they themselves are guilty of - except that they have managed to keep it secret. This is nothing less than hypocrisy!

Samuel Ngewa

#18. There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

Jacques Maritain

#19. To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

Wendell Berry

#20. To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing less than evil.

Stacey Jay

#21. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Charles R. Schwab

#22. The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.

Osman Welela

#23. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams.
We are only what might have been ...

Charles Lamb

#24. Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker

#25. Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Eric Hoffer

#26. We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

John Raleigh Mott

#27. Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about them. There is, however, something sad and limiting about the fear of making them.

Peter Buffett

#28. The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith ...

Meister Eckhart

#29. Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.

Lewis Carroll

#30. Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.

Eleanor Morse

#31. MASSIMO: "After all I have done, to have you love me is nothing less than a miracle."
BELINDA: He was wrong. Loving him was the easiest thing in the world. That they'd found each other after their respective histories was the miracle.

Billy London

#32. Getting into God's stride means nothing less than oneness with Him. It takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don't give up because the pain is intense right now - get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.

Oswald Chambers

#33. William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved art had emerged bedimmed and bemired, less, other and uglier than themselves.

Aldous Huxley

#34. In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Susan Sontag

#35. Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even I, in my terrible difference, wanted nothing less than purpose and meaning. Chapter 8, pgs 35-36

Dean Koontz

#36. To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

Euripides

#37. We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Nadar

#38. Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Gloria Steinem

#39. Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#40. Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Andre Breton

#41. There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

Eric Wareheim

#42. The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency.

Simon Greenleaf

#43. To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.

Makoto Shinkai

#44. Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

Ed Foreman

#45. It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.

L. Ron Hubbard

#46. The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Seth Godin

#47. The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.

Ernest Becker

#48. Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Charles Francis Richter

#49. Financially, I'm certainly not a rich man. I spent half my savings just to get on this ship, and by the time we drop anchor in Callao I'll have less than $2k to my name. At 31 years of age, that's nothing to boast about. But I can't say I'm all that worried.

Niall Doherty

#50. What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#51. Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less absurd than trying to row a boat by drawing only your hands through the water or trying to unscrew a screw using nothing more than your fingernail.

Richie Norton

#52. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Seneca The Younger

#53. If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me, - less than nothing, because an object of aversion.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#54. What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

Peter Rollins

#55. The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.

Henry Hazlitt

#56. Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

Joyce Meyer

#57. In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.

Fernando Pessoa

#58. You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Phil McGraw

#59. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#60. You are nothing less than a miracle!

Bryant McGill

#61. Our goal is to be among the best nations worldwide because the Emirati people will settle for nothing less than the best.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#62. Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

Marty Rubin

#63. Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.

Paul Silway

#64. My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.

Robert Mondavi

#65. Dee and his contemporaries quested for nothing less than Total Knowledge - and all sciences were thought to be reflections of, and ways to ascend back to, the mind of God.

Jason Louv

#66. Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#67. There is nothing costs less than civility.

Miguel De Cervantes

#68. Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality.

Meir Soloveichik

#69. Somewhere in the existing software there was a bug, a potentially lethal flaw. Nothing less than the unselfing of the self would do. If he could cleanse the whole machine, then maybe the bug, too, would end up in the trash. After that, he could perhaps begin to construct a new man.

Salman Rushdie

#70. We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance ... all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

Marissa Meyer

#71. The city went on about its business. A new day would soon begin, and nothing so inconsequential as a death possessed the power to delay it. It was just a life, after all: no more, nor less than that.

R.J. Ellory

#72. Perhaps a stranger would look at Toby and see little more than a skinny postadolescent with a shockingly bad haircut. But he was my boyfriend, my dom, my fragile prince, and he was nothing less than beautiful to me.

Alexis Hall

#73. Genius guarantees the faculties of the heart. Man is no less immortal than the soul. Great thoughts spring from reason! Fraternity is not a myth. Newborn children know nothing of life, not even greatness. In misfortune, friends increase.

Comte De Lautreamont

#74. So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

Ryan Tedder

#75. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

Anne Fadiman

#76. Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

Roger Moore

#77. There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

Charles Horton Cooley

#78. The world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.

Gregg Braden

#79. Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

#80. Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

Henry Ford

#81. The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

Ann Voskamp

#82. Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#83. 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.

Edward Feser

#84. Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

James Laver

#85. My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Keariene Muizz

#86. He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Eric Hoffer

#87. The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.

Emil Cioran

#88. And what happens if we don't remember? What happens if we never knew? Too many of us are here in the dark because in the rush and clamor of blood the third reptilian brain takes over, the one that says I do not recognize anything of myself in you, and so you are less than nothing.

Quan Barry

#89. They deserved nothing less than the truth
a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose.

Graham Greene

#90. The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his justice and mercy are alive.

Lesslie Newbigin

#91. Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#92. 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

#93. Nothing less than 7 inches.

Cassandra Clare

#94. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

Jacque Fresco

#95. And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

Rebecca Goldstein

#96. Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

L. E. J. Brouwer

#97. After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.

Sylvia Plath

#98. Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world.

Desmond Tutu

#99. Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

Erica Jong

#100. 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