Least Quotes - page 25

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. View quote
James D. Watson
The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
My dear Professor, a war would have cost us at least 30,000 brave soldiers, and at best we should have gained nothing by it. Besides, anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best. View quote
Plato
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is. View quote
Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. View quote
Aristotle
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. (Charlie Chaplin)
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation. View quote
Roy Barnes
Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better. View quote
Satyajit Ray
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. View quote
Karl Marx
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book. View quote
Doron Zeilberger
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The man is a humbug - a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull... View quote
C. S. Lewis
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or-if they think there is not-at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it. (C. S. Lewis)
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. View quote
Sigmund Freud
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. View quote
Larry Wall
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U. S. View quote
Larry Wall
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions. View quote
Seth Lloyd