Quotes about Far Less

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. Votes: 2

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. Votes: 2

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. Votes: 2

Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. Votes: 2

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Votes: 2

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. Votes: 2

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. Votes: 2

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling. Votes: 2

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order. Votes: 2

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. Votes: 2

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter. Votes: 2

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. Votes: 2

I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt. Votes: 2

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. Votes: 2

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems. Votes: 2

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be. Votes: 2

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. Votes: 2

At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3. Votes: 2

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. Votes: 2

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own. Votes: 2

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. Votes: 2

Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen. Votes: 2

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are. Votes: 2

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt. Votes: 2

I'm far less a leader than a writer. Votes: 0

Take the high road; it's far less crowded. Votes: 0

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Votes: 0

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. Votes: 0

What we know is far less important than what we use. Votes: 0

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. Votes: 0

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less. Votes: 0

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. Votes: 0

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ... Votes: 0

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. Votes: 0

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. Votes: 0

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. Votes: 0

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. Votes: 0

Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. Votes: 0

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. Votes: 0

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. Votes: 0

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. Votes: 0

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. Votes: 0

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. Votes: 0

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. Votes: 0

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. Votes: 0

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. Votes: 0

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made. Votes: 0

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!" Votes: 0

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future". Votes: 0

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record. Votes: 0

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation. Votes: 0

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze Votes: 0

Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work. Votes: 0

Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography. Votes: 0

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. Votes: 0

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell. Votes: 0

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. Votes: 0

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. Votes: 0

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. Votes: 0

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. Votes: 0

And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more. Votes: 0

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. Votes: 0

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! Votes: 0

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself. Votes: 0

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. Votes: 0

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. Votes: 0

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children. Votes: 0

I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look,only far thinner, and less glorious. Votes: 0

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. Votes: 0

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films. Votes: 0

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Votes: 0

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise. Votes: 0

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite Votes: 0

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. Votes: 0

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. Votes: 0

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less. Votes: 0

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. Votes: 0

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less. Votes: 0

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. Votes: 0

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch. Votes: 0

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. Votes: 0

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place. Votes: 0

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war. Votes: 0

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. Votes: 0

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible, Votes: 0

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special. Votes: 0

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. Votes: 0

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. Votes: 0

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand. Votes: 0

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. Votes: 0

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. Votes: 0

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Votes: 0

While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other. Votes: 0

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. Votes: 0

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you. Votes: 0

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. Votes: 0

As far as we know, everyone's right"” Strigoi don't want to hang out in Palm Springs." Eddie became about one percent less tense. Votes: 0

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people. Votes: 0

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy. Votes: 0

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line. Votes: 0

We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart. Votes: 0

Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made. Votes: 0

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! Votes: 0

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. Votes: 0

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Votes: 0

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. Votes: 0

If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology. Votes: 0

A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding. Votes: 0

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. Votes: 0

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape Votes: 0

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less. Votes: 0

Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about. Votes: 0

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Votes: 0

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime Votes: 0

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men. Votes: 0

Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Votes: 0

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out. Votes: 0

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Votes: 0

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city. Votes: 0

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. Votes: 0

Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it. Votes: 0

I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged Votes: 0

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. Votes: 0

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock. Votes: 0

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock. Votes: 0

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on! Votes: 0

Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends. Votes: 0

Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place. Votes: 0

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results. Votes: 0

With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous. Votes: 0

Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy. Votes: 0

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand. Votes: 0

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us. Votes: 0

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and, whatever his talents might be, in a far less perfect manner. Votes: 0

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness? Votes: 0

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration. Votes: 0

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. Votes: 0

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests. Votes: 0