Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

I swim more or less every day.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good...

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less...

Eliminating some 3600 post offices – mostly rural – will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that’s a lie. The less I have to hide, the less...

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than...

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little...

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting,...

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.

Firms don’t just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would...

The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren’t sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

When you’ve got big sky, big places and less people, people act differently and treat each other differently. It’s tangible. It’s not just a concept. I grew up in the country and then moved to...

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

The more we learn, the more we know. The more we know, the more we forget. The more we forget, the less we know. So, why learn?

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don’t know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: ‘Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you,...

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they’d say that much less now.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I...

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the...

I’m very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like...

Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

When you’re pregnant you just want to be comfortable – but I wear more or less the same as I do when I’m not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when...

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot...

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

Contrary to what you might think, China’s economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

With ‘The Crazies,’ we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you’re one of the three stars.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

Don’t get me wrong – what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

I’ve always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought...

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It’s not so we can find more ways to spend it. It’s not so we can indulge ourselves and...

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Israel is so tiny. It’s, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don’t like to go and read about at all, and I couldn’t care less anymore.