Top 100 Nothing Less Than Quotes
#1. I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall."
"Its my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. "Nothing less than seven inches.
Cassandra Clare
#2. 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
#3. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,
N.D. Wilson
#4. Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
Erica Jong
#5. 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
#6. A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems
William Buell Sprague
#7. 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
#8. ... 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
#9. Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James Baldwin
#10. 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
#11. He is utterly sovereign over his created order, yet he is nothing less than personal as he deals with me. Sometimes it is more important to worship such a God than to understand him.
D. A. Carson
#12. The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
Tullian Tchividjian
#13. Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
L. E. J. Brouwer
#14. 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
#15. The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
Jacque Fresco
#17. Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#18. The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.
Herbert Simon
#19. The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.
Prince Charles
#20. 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
#21. But that's what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover these things." "You're
Homer Hickam
#22. 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
#23. I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
Caleb Carr
#24. The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema
Randy Alcorn
#25. We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild
yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.
J.I. Packer
#26. 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
#27. Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
James Laver
#28. 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
#29. Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Victor Pinchuk
#30. Great accountability is nothing more and nothing less than having the courage to demand that the people who work for you use their strengths in a responsible way. Learning
Jonathan Raymond
#31. We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.
Jason Silva
#32. 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
#33. Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
Jeremiah Seed
#34. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
Arthur C. Brooks
#35. The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
Pope John Paul II
#36. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza
#37. The world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.
Gregg Braden
#38. What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
William Gilmore Simms
#39. Jesus is a teacher who doesn't just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn't content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings.
James K.A. Smith
#40. The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#41. The impact of space activities
is nothing less than the galvanizing
of hope and imagination for human life continuum
into a future of infinite possibility.
Vanna Bonta
#42. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#43. When you start with legal holiness, you have eyes only for the cross, and you never see that in Jesus Christ, nothing less than the eternal trinitarian life of Father, Son and Spirit is being lived out inside human existence. You never really get the staggering meaning of the incarnation.
C. Baxter Kruger
#44. Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.
Roger Moore
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
Russell Simmons
#49. Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nothing less than the curse of consciousness. Of moral responsibility. Of always, ever after, having to choose between what is right and what is wrong.
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
#50. We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.
Narendra Modi
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.
Dave Zirin
#55. In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
Loretta Young
#56. As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!
Hugh Ferriss
#57. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
Jack Canfield
#58. Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. 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
#60. Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.
Elizabeth Samet
#61. Nothing less than seven inches, that's my motto. - Isabelle Lightwood
Cassandra Clare
#62. 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
#63. Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
John Redwood
#64. Settle for nothing less than the greatest love below Heaven and Above hell.
Dahlia L. Summers
#65. I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
Sonny Perdue
#67. Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali
#68. The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
Anonymous
#69. Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
Abba Eban
#71. Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. 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
#74. To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.
Cass Gilbert
#75. 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
#76. Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.
Joyce Meyer
#77. 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
#78. Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
John Wooden
#79. The need of our times is nothing less than the re-Christianization of our churches, according to the gospel alone, in both doctrine and culture, by Christ himself
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#80. If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God.
Scott Hahn
#81. The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.
Ray Anyasi
#82. None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton
#83. The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
Annie Besant
#84. It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes
Emily Bronte
#85. The coming of the kingdom brings deliverance, not only for the soul, but also for the body. It embraces nothing less than the re-creation of heaven and earth.
Herman N. Ridderbos
#86. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
Jerry Bridges
#87. I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?
Tom Shroder
#88. Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge.
Jon Krakauer
#89. We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.
John Kasich
#90. Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.
Maria Montessori
#91. Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.
Christina Engela
#92. The "home base" of missions is now nothing less than the worldwide community, and
Lesslie Newbigin
#94. John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
Junot Diaz
#95. I want nothing less than a wild and honest love. Don't bring me pieces of this. Only give me the fullness of it, from the flames to the starlight of my tears, and especially the blackberry bruises of your kiss.
Erica Alex
#96. Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.
Raymond Carver
#97. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love
Sam Harris
#98. In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
Guy Ritchie
#99. Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
Arthur M. Jolly
#100. 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
