L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.”
“Less is more. If I don't have to wear make-up, I don't. If there's no real reason to have my hair 'done', I leave it. To keep it looking healthy, I ensure its properly shampooed and conditioned every time I wash it.”
“Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.”
“Less is not more. More is more.”
“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Source: 1949-1959
“Less isn't more; just enough is more.”
“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Less knows so well the pleasures of youth - danger, excitement, losing oneself in a dark club with a pill, a shot, a stranger's mouth - and, with Robert and his friends, the pleasures of age - comfort and ease, beauty and taste, old friends and old stories and wine, whiskey, sunset over water. His entire life, he has alternated between the two. There is his own distant youth, that daily humiliation of rinsing out your one good shirt and putting on your onw good smile, along with the daily rush of newness: new pleasures, new people, new reflections of yourself. There is Robert's middle age of selecting his vices as carefully as tiles in a Paris shop, napping in the sunlight on an afternoon and getting up from a chair and hearing the creak of death. The city of youth, the country of age. But in between, where Less is living - that exurban existence? How has he never learned to live it?”
Source: Less
“Less land, less time, more crop.”
“Less mess, less stress. That's my rule! If you don't stay on top of decluttering, it can get out of control. I maintain as much as possible. I'll do seasonal edits and decide what we can toss or donate. If we don't love it, need it or haven't used it in the past year, it's gone.”
“Less money for public media means less access to the arts.”
“Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.”
“Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.”
“Less mutable qualities, like age, may have worked against me too. My résumé revealed only that I was probably over forty. But even that relatively youthful status could have repulsed many potential employers. Business journalist Jill Andresky Fraser warned me that a forty-plus woman was unlikely to be hired except by someone seeking a “motherly secretary,” Katherine Newman, among others, has documented corporate age discrimination, quoting, for example, a Wall Street executive who told her, “Employers think that [if you’re over forty] you can’t think anymore. Over fifty and [they think] you’re burned out.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“Less mysterious was the obituary of Cardinal Siri, delivered shortly after John's death: "It will take forty years to repair the damage this Pope inflicted in four years." Siri was one of those "prophets of doom" Pope John shook his head over. In hindsight, however, Siri sounds like a raving optimist, for as of this writing the damage caused by his Council continues to metastasize, and fragments of restoration are as chimerical as John's "new Pentecost".”
Source: Fatima in Twilight
“Less of me, more of Him – a transformative equation where the subtraction of self leads to the addition of Godly grace.”
“Less opinion, more perspective.”
“Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.”
“Less poetry,” said the voice over the telephone. “Be specific.” But did anyone ever experience pleasure from reading a clinical description? Didn’t the old man know how words carry colours and sounds into the flesh?”
Source: Delta of Venus
“Less possessing-less possessed.
More possessing-more possessed.
More possessed-less accessed.
Less possessed-more accessed.”
“Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge”
“Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.”
“less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean”
“Less rules, more intuition.”
“Less savage, more Cervantes.”
Source: In Limbo
“Less shame a greater fault would palliate.”
Source: Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay
“Less sleep is the only shortcut to success. For health must be sacrificed in place of wealth.”
“less small talk
and more real talk.”
“Less smoking and more reading.”
“Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.”
“Less squeaky, more sneaky.”
“Less stuff means more freedom.”
Source: Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
“Less sugar, more fruit. Less meat, more veggies. Less soda, more water. Less worry, more sleep.”
“Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.”
“Less talk, more action, pussycat”
Source: Burning Up
“Less talk more head right now, huh?”
“Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.”
“Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.”
“Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.”
“Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.”
“Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.”
“less than a minute”
“Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.”
“Less than a year and a half ago, the guy was crawling around in the muck in some foreign country as an Army Ranger. Even though he was recruited by the army for his mad computer skills, it was a bullet in the shoulder and chest he took saving someone in his squad that brought him home for good. The brother is damn lethal.”
Source: Walk the Edge
“Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!”
“Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.”
“Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.”