Quotes about More or Less

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Votes: 2

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. Votes: 2

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Votes: 2

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. Votes: 2

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation. Votes: 2

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Votes: 2

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. Votes: 2

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags. Votes: 2

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out. Votes: 2

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. Votes: 2

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on. Votes: 2

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. Votes: 2

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews. Votes: 2

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism. Votes: 2

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. Votes: 2

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. Votes: 2

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. Votes: 2

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. Votes: 2

I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life. Votes: 2

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. Votes: 2

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter. Votes: 2

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that. Votes: 2

The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate. Votes: 2

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold. Votes: 2

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. Votes: 2

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Votes: 2

History is more or less bunk. Votes: 0

All this happened, more or less. Votes: 0

I swim more or less every day. Votes: 0

I was a hired gun, more or less. Votes: 0

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. Votes: 0

All human rules are more or less idiotic. Votes: 0

If you're a stand-up, you're more or less yourself. Votes: 0

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Votes: 0

I am more or less reading all the time. Votes: 0

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant. Votes: 0

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists. Votes: 0

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. Votes: 0

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less. Votes: 0

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. Votes: 0

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person. Votes: 0

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical. Votes: 0

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more. Votes: 0

Every one is more or less master of his own fate. Votes: 0

One life is worth no more or less than any other Votes: 0

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves. Votes: 0

No one is any more or any less important than you are. Votes: 0

It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant. Votes: 0

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now. Votes: 0

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. Votes: 0

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there. Votes: 0

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. Votes: 0

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come. Votes: 0

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . Votes: 0

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body. Votes: 0

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived. Votes: 0

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less. Votes: 0

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less. Votes: 0

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion. Votes: 0

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. Votes: 0

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. Votes: 0

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. Votes: 0

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another. Votes: 0

Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional. Votes: 0

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true. Votes: 0

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way! Votes: 0

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. Votes: 0

Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. Votes: 0

After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal. Votes: 0

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less. Votes: 0

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience. Votes: 0

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music. Votes: 0

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Votes: 0

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here. Votes: 0

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. Votes: 0

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five. Votes: 0

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women. Votes: 0

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? Votes: 0

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more. Votes: 0

Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value. Votes: 0

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have. Votes: 0

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud? Votes: 0

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. Votes: 0

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality." Votes: 0

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. Votes: 0

More or less Europe - that's the wrong alternative! What we need is less centralism. Votes: 0

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. Votes: 0

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative. Votes: 0

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness Votes: 0

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management. Votes: 0

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to. Votes: 0

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference! Votes: 0

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed. Votes: 0

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less. Votes: 0

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. Votes: 0

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer. Votes: 0

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. Votes: 0

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Votes: 0

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else. Votes: 0

I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso. Votes: 0

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe. Votes: 0

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same Votes: 0

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. Votes: 0

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less. Votes: 0

Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started Votes: 0

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice. Votes: 0

The food you eat either makes you more healthy or less healthy. Those are your options. Votes: 0

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen. Votes: 0

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important. Votes: 0

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. Votes: 0

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. Votes: 0

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said. Votes: 0

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. Votes: 0

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. Votes: 0

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. Votes: 0

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. Votes: 0

Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified."“Neville Goddard Votes: 0

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence. Votes: 0

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. Votes: 0

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. Votes: 0

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best. Votes: 0

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. Votes: 0

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. Votes: 0

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. Votes: 0

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. Votes: 0

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are. Votes: 0

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me Votes: 0

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ? Votes: 0

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild Votes: 0

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. Votes: 0

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror. Votes: 0

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game. Votes: 0

Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust. Votes: 0

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.. Votes: 0

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Votes: 0

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality. Votes: 0

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. Votes: 0

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time. Votes: 0

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more. Votes: 0

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. Votes: 0

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have! Votes: 0

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. Votes: 0

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. Votes: 0

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. Votes: 0

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. Votes: 0

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. Votes: 0

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? Votes: 0

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. Votes: 0

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. Votes: 0

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom. Votes: 0

The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success. Votes: 0

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got. Votes: 0

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit Votes: 0

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. Votes: 0

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. Votes: 0

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. Votes: 0

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Votes: 0

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. Votes: 0

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. Votes: 0

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. Votes: 0

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. Votes: 0

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man. Votes: 0

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. Votes: 0

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come. Votes: 0

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit. Votes: 0

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. Votes: 0

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. Votes: 0

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. Votes: 0

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? Votes: 0

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates. Votes: 0

Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. Votes: 0

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread. Votes: 0

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. Votes: 0

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. Votes: 0

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less. Votes: 0

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more. Votes: 0

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness. Votes: 0

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. Votes: 0

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Votes: 0

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Votes: 0

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected. Votes: 0

Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less. Votes: 0

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth. Votes: 0

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. Votes: 0

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. Votes: 0

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about; Votes: 0

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. Votes: 0

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper. ... Votes: 0

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. Votes: 0

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. Votes: 0

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. Votes: 0

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Votes: 0

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less. Votes: 0

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course. Votes: 0

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class. Votes: 0

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. Votes: 0

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. Votes: 0

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. Votes: 0

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. Votes: 0

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) Votes: 0

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die. Votes: 0

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden. Votes: 0

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. Votes: 0

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves. 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

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important. Votes: 0

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there. Votes: 0

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said Votes: 0

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time. Votes: 0

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. Votes: 0

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist. Votes: 0

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. Votes: 0

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees. Votes: 0

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases. Votes: 0

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct. Votes: 0

Regarding alien beings and UFO sightings, They're less about 'where' or 'when' to find, more about 'how' or using 'what' to identify. Votes: 0

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds. Votes: 0

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing? Votes: 0

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised. Votes: 0

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. Votes: 0

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it. Votes: 0

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others. Votes: 0

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Votes: 0

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. Votes: 0

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags. Votes: 0

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue. Votes: 0

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre. Votes: 0

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right. Votes: 0

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination. Votes: 0

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes Votes: 0

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation. Votes: 0

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. Votes: 0

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. Votes: 0

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. Votes: 0

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. Votes: 0

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Votes: 0

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Votes: 0

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course. Votes: 0

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. Votes: 0

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies. Votes: 0

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained. Votes: 0

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction. Votes: 0

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK. Votes: 0

Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him. Votes: 0

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. Votes: 0

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental. Votes: 0

You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord. Votes: 0

She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both. Votes: 0

I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want. Votes: 0

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird. Votes: 0

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness. Votes: 0

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. Votes: 0

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. Votes: 0

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. Votes: 0

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. Votes: 0

One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over. Votes: 0

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does. Votes: 0

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion. Votes: 0

You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness. Votes: 0

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. Votes: 0

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being. Votes: 0

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. Votes: 0

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary. Votes: 0

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. Votes: 0

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots Votes: 0

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government. Votes: 0

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game. Votes: 0

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song. Votes: 0

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved. Votes: 0

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity. Votes: 0

Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its pull. Votes: 0

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. Votes: 0

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. Votes: 0

It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse. Votes: 0

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought. Votes: 0

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys. Votes: 0

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification. Votes: 0

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards. Votes: 0

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. Votes: 0

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good. Votes: 0

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. Votes: 0

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less. Votes: 0

I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours. Votes: 0

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. Votes: 0

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go. Votes: 0

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. Votes: 0

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today. Votes: 0

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation. Votes: 0

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive. Votes: 0

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come. Votes: 0

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week. Votes: 0

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own. Votes: 0

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more? Votes: 0

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind. Votes: 0

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature. Votes: 0

Novel technologies for delivering .. vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use than the alternatives. Votes: 0

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it. Votes: 0

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea. Votes: 0

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself. Votes: 0

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times. Votes: 0

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself. Votes: 0

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation. Votes: 0

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love. Votes: 0

God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you've done. Votes: 0

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent. Votes: 0

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. Votes: 0

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation. Votes: 0

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have. Votes: 0

Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity. Votes: 0

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry. Votes: 0

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration. Votes: 0

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity. Votes: 0

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks. Votes: 0

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Votes: 0

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. Votes: 0

Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. Votes: 0

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. Votes: 0

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more? Votes: 0

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent. Votes: 0

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears. Votes: 0

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated... Votes: 0

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. Votes: 0

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms. Votes: 0

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings. Votes: 0

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel. Votes: 0

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less. Votes: 0

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely. Votes: 0

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant. Votes: 0

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open. Votes: 0

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. Votes: 0

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process. Votes: 0

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex. Votes: 0

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her. 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 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

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them. Votes: 0

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up. Votes: 0

D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time. Votes: 0

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be. Votes: 0

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach. Votes: 0

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure. Votes: 0

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems. Votes: 0

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular. Votes: 0

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal. Votes: 0

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). Votes: 0

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged. Votes: 0

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement. Votes: 0

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself. Votes: 0

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government. Votes: 0

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production. Votes: 0

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. Votes: 0

To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it's less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both. Votes: 0

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph. Votes: 0

We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next. Votes: 0

I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman. Votes: 0

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less. Votes: 0

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail... Votes: 0

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved. Votes: 0

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there. Votes: 0

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested. Votes: 0

It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No. Votes: 0

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice. Votes: 0

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent. Votes: 0

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal. Votes: 0

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts. Votes: 0

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. Votes: 0

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair. Votes: 0

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. Votes: 0

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members Votes: 0

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it. Votes: 0

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. Votes: 0

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer. Votes: 0

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect. Votes: 0

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent. Votes: 0

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. Votes: 0

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity"”which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are. Votes: 0

To present a whole world that doesn't exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we're polymaths. That's just the act of all good writing. Votes: 0

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true. Votes: 0

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime. Votes: 0

my country fellow,you deserve much more.learn to ask what you exactly need at the right time at the right cause.do not accept less or more .balance it. Votes: 0

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment. Votes: 0

In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key. Votes: 0

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake. Votes: 0

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey. Votes: 0

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. Votes: 0

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire. Votes: 0

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything. Votes: 0

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. Votes: 0

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality. Votes: 0

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost. Votes: 0

No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth - Thus preserving the face from congealing. Votes: 0

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble. Votes: 0

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. Votes: 0

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind. Votes: 0

A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not drowned. What now? Votes: 0

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know... Votes: 0

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position. Votes: 0

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort. Votes: 0

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone. Votes: 0

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression. Votes: 0

Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them? Votes: 0

If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier. Votes: 0

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. Votes: 0

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. Votes: 0

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. Votes: 0

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass. Votes: 0

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. Votes: 0

A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn't give service, it gets small faster than it grew big. Votes: 0

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. Votes: 0

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment. Votes: 0

Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov--my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi--and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met Votes: 0

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth. Votes: 0

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. Votes: 0

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. Votes: 0

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant. Votes: 0

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not. Votes: 0

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. Votes: 0

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less. Votes: 0

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. Votes: 0

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity. Votes: 0

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. Votes: 0

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. Votes: 0

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps... Votes: 0

The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich. Votes: 0

Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible. Votes: 0

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school. Votes: 0

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly. Votes: 0

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era. Votes: 0

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts. Votes: 0

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. Votes: 0

A woman is human.She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.Likewise, she is never less.Equality is a given.A woman is human. Votes: 0

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school. Votes: 0

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer. Votes: 0

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense. Votes: 0

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. Votes: 0

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. Votes: 0

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned. Votes: 0

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well. Votes: 0

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. Votes: 0

As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex. Votes: 0

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it. Votes: 0

I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally. Votes: 0

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other. Votes: 0

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process. Votes: 0

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love. Votes: 0

Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment? Votes: 0

You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others. Votes: 0

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security. Votes: 0

I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less. Votes: 0

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it. Votes: 0

I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet. Votes: 0

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people. Votes: 0

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too. Votes: 0

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video. Votes: 0

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child. Votes: 0

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug. Votes: 0

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them. Votes: 0

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. Votes: 0

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties. Votes: 0

To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a kind of feeling of insecurity; you are looking for a hold. Votes: 0

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. Votes: 0

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way. Votes: 0

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. Votes: 0

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books. Votes: 0

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Votes: 0

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too. Votes: 0

In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995. Votes: 0

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations. Votes: 0