Least Quotes - page 2

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. (Kurt Cobain)
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things. View quote
René Descartes
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. View quote
John Updike
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. View quote
William Hazlitt
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. View quote
Montesquieu
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. (Robert Frost)
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. View quote
Donald Knuth
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
John Ruskin
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. View quote
Bernard Baruch
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least. View quote
Robert Browning
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. View quote
Lynne Cheney
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. (Frances Burney)
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. View quote
Jean Henri Fabre
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. View quote
Gregory Bateson