Least Quotes - page 5

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. (Simone Weil)
George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between. View quote
Wesley Clark
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society. View quote
John Rawls
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. View quote
Steven Weinberg
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence. View quote
Steven Weinberg
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. View quote
William Morris
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves. View quote
Jane Goodall
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money. (Henry Miller)
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The "democracy gap" in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the "least worst” every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the "least worst” gets worse. View quote
Ralph Nader
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. View quote
Steve Jobs
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. View quote
Marvin Minsky
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. View quote
Stephen Colbert
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live. (Robert Charles Wilson)
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. View quote
Anton LaVey
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. View quote
Tom Stoppard
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. View quote
E. E. Cummings