Least Quotes - page 17

I discovered long ago that, if you write a book about cats or dogs, everybody loves you, but if you dare to write a book about human beings, all hell breaks loose. It is impossible to write an uncensored, honest book about human behaviour without offending at least part of your audience. If you feel you have a basic truth to tell, then you must tell it and be prepared to suffer the inevitable criticisms. (Desmond Morris)
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all. View quote
Vernor Vinge
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn. View quote
Vernor Vinge
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. View quote
Jack Vance
We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. View quote
Peter Carey
Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk. View quote
Michael Chabon
In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. Go. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts. View quote
Georg Brandes
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. View quote
Walter Lippmann
10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures. View quote
Larry Niven
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. View quote
Joseph Roux
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. View quote
Joyce Brothers
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. View quote
Bob Dole
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least. (Douglas Hofstadter)
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy. View quote
Benjamin Mkapa
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation. View quote
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct-never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield