Top 100 One Less Quotes
#1. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J.K. Rowling
#2. If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.
Louise Hay
#3. My order from Starbucks is an ice chai with one less pump of chai because I feel like they put too much, and it's, like, too sweet, and it's overwhelming.
Gigi Hadid
#4. To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.
Paul Scherrer
#5. Maybe. But you know, when you love someone you love them. And every day you sit back pretending that you don't is one less day you have with him.
Katie Klein
#6. The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.
Mamphela Ramphele
#7. One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
Montesquieu
#8. I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.
Alex Karpovsky
#9. I open it so he has no choice. At the crack of the top and the sound of the fizz he winces like one more Coke down, one less in the world.
Peter Heller
#10. Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.
Charles Frazier
#11. A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
#12. Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
Jenny Downham
#13. Two roads diverged in a forest and I chose the one less traveled by and it made all the difference.
Robert Frost
#14. Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday
#15. I do not choose the roads to travel;my destination does, apparently it is always the one less traveled.
Pushpa Rana
#16. Zero is only one less then one but what a difference.
Boris Zubry
#17. They say only love can create, so who the fuck could love up a centipede? He's got more love in him than I got.
Now, killing a centipede makes me feel safer - like, one less.
William S. Burroughs
#18. My favorite Viagra ad, a Spanish-language print ad I saw some years ago, simply shows an image of the distinctive blue pill with the text "Un divorcio menos. Gracias, Pfizer." ("One less divorce. Thanks, Pfizer.")
Hanne Blank
#19. Even if it simply means that for the moment there is one less monster.
Joost Raessens
#20. I have two children - could I ever choose between them? Never. That's what 'Sophie's Choice' was about. If you have 50 children, you don't love one less.
Bonnie Bedelia
#21. One less reason for men to be in the world if women could zip their dresses up all alone. "You
Tiffany Reisz
#23. Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet
John Guillebaud
#24. Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
Jack Schwartz
#25. Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow
George R R Martin
#26. Then tell me Mark, how can I do it? How do I watch her life fade everyday but not hurt? How do I continue to breath, when I know she takes one less breath everyday? Why Mark, Why is this happening to someone so precious?
D. Love
#27. She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I'm the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.
George R R Martin
#28. Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?
Anna Jean Ouellette
#29. Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
Jeanne Calment
#30. Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.
Lauren Kate
#31. Your parents have to nod and agree. A few even celebrate, because the Republic gives them one thousand Notes as a condolence gift. Money and one less mouth to feed? What a thoughtful government.
Marie Lu
#32. 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
Bud Grant
#33. I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.
Mitch Hedberg
#34. For example
I wonder
could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
Yann Martel
#35. Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.
Suze Orman
#36. With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.
John Guillebaud
#38. If I get up just one less time than the number of times I've been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with.
Roman Polanski
#40. Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
Emily Greene Balch
#41. Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
#42. The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I'll be exposed to in my life.
Michelle Madow
#43. Friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#44. One less desirable aspect of democracy is that it seems to require serious demonization of the enemy if the nation and public opinion are to be galvanized sufficiently to pay a serious price in blood or treasure at war.
Graham E. Fuller
#45. The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum - one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.
Bette Greene
#46. One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
Elie Wiesel
#47. To cite Enzo Ferrari, we will always sell one less Ferrari than the market wants, that's a policy that will never change.
Sergio Marchionne
#48. Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
Mark Z. Jacobson
#49. What's one less person on the face of the Earth, anyways?
Ted Bundy
#50. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.
J. Michael Straczynski
#51. There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your atheism toward the Roman gods are likely the same reasons I would give for not believing in Jesus.
Dan Barker
#52. So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.
Jack Campbell
#54. As the saw teeth caught on the bone, she had performed a second surgery, one less bloody but no less brutal, excising from his heart the impulse to run, to cower, to let the man bleed to death rather than face the horror of saving him. The amputation had left both patients lighter. p 121-122
Anthony Marra
#55. Nothing in this scene will be changed by my death, Nicole thought. There will just be one less pair of eyes to observe its splendor. And one less collection of chemicals risen to consciousness to wonder what it all means.
Arthur C. Clarke
#56. Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.
Facundo Cabral
#57. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
#59. 66/ 'Two roads diverge in a yellow wood,' I think. It didn't ultimately matter which one you took; that was the real point of Frost's poem. The roads were pretty much the same. That stuff about the one less traveled making all the difference was bullshit.
Kim Addonizio
#60. I wanted him to leave here one step closer to being the man I knew he could be. I wanted him to have one less nightmare.
Richelle Mead
#61. If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
Mitchell Symons
#62. During the prayers of the day, there was one less "amen".
Phindiwe Nkosi
#63. One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.
Stewart Butterfield
#64. There was one less monster on earth, and the world was certainly better off without him.
Craig R. Key
#65. I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
Jane Austen
#66. If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
Ze Frank
#68. Truthful and loyal. A writer has no obligation to be either, but should choose one less one be chosen for her or him.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
#69. Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.
Jim Rohn
#70. It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
Pamela Ribon
#71. 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
#72. Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder
#73. One less sweet angel about to get burned where the devils come to play.
Lucian Bane
#74. He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.
Edward St. Aubyn
#75. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.
Yongsoo Park
#76. From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
Emile Zola
#77. Segregation ... not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually ... It scars the soul ... It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than ... 'You are not equal to ... '
Martin Luther King Jr.
#78. 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
#79. Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Edmund Burke
#80. If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.
Marjane Satrapi
#81. It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
John Steinbeck
#82. Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.
Max Irons
#83. Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.
Robert Kiyosaki
#84. I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual - that's to say, you handled it fairly well.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#85. I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.
James Maslow
#87. nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence. Conditions
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#88. I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#89. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#90. When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
Maya Angelou
#91. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
Arthur C. Clarke
#92. Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.
Christian Wiman
#93. Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? ... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#94. States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.
Steven Pinker
#95. The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.
Robyn Carr
#96. In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#97. I should think less of myself if no one disliked me.
Kate Morton
#98. One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning.
Mark Helprin
#99. One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
David Simon
#100. You were apt to go from one extreme to the other, in a truly pious environment; which is why ministers' sons in that day were more less expected to become loose livers when they grew up.
Bruce Catton
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