All Quotes

The less men think, the more they talk.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.
‐‐ Suze Orman

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
‐‐ Paul Harris

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
‐‐ Oren Peli

The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.
‐‐ Greg Lake

The less routine the more life.
‐‐ Amos Bronson Alcott

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.
‐‐ James Van Der Beek

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
‐‐ George Muller

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

The less you have, the more you enjoy.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

The less you have to think about how to spend every dollar, the more likely you are to spend wisely.
‐‐ Suze Orman

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

The less you know, the more you believe.
‐‐ Bono

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
‐‐ Pauline Phillips

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
‐‐ Allen Klein

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
‐‐ Serge Schmemann

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
‐‐ Gertrude Jekyll

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
‐‐ Al-Waleed bin Talal

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
‐‐ James Comey

The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.
‐‐ David Mixner

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
‐‐ Oliver North

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
‐‐ Chung Mong-joon

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.
‐‐ Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
‐‐ Allan Sloan

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
‐‐ Liz Murray

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
‐‐ Jack Ma

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
‐‐ Paul McEuen

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
‐‐ Elon Musk

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.
‐‐ Lucille Roybal-Allard

The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you're not necessarily thinking about them while you're working, but they're in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
‐‐ Spiro T. Agnew

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
‐‐ Hun Sen

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
‐‐ Anita Brookner