Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small – less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.

I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less… Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more...

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

A lot of people don’t realize it, but I’ve a lot less success than I’ve have had success.

As I have got older and become a father, there’s less and less time for films.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I’m crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler...

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it’s hard to...

I developed a definition – which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world – that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way...

Here you’ll find everything you don’t need—and much less!

I couldn’t care less about actors’ trailers and food on sets and stuff like that – I just want to act.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

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

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

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

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

I made a mistake. I am not perfect, but it doesn’t mean I’m less of a person.

There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.

The word “frustration” is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one’s destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size… You were not created to settle for...

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

I’m from the ‘less is more’ school. I had to be in the ‘more is more’ zone with ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information,...

I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don’t eat too much junk food, and enjoy what you eat. Or, to summarise:...

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

We should have known much more than our ancestors.But if we learn less, we’re much more stupid than them.

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In...

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother’s voice.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Just as we were finishing ‘Paul’s Boutique’ we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on...

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.

Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.”I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.””You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s...

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I’m disinterested in my career, but I don’t see it in...