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Speak less but act more. -- Jose Maria Aznar
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. -- Plutarch
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction. -- Nathan Myhrvold
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. -- Samuel Butler
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. -- Tom Brokaw
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. -- Jeff Bridges
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. -- Thomas Mann
Make no mistake: one is not a better Quebecer because one speaks French. One is not less of a Quebecer because one speaks English. We all share the same rights. -- Pierre Moreau
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. -- Thomas J. Watson
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. -- Boris Johnson
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. -- Clint Eastwood
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. -- Roberto Cavalli
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers. -- John Lawson
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God. -- James Green Somerville
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us. -- Tony Judt
I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision. -- J. Michael Straczynski
In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else. -- Marv Albert
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me. -- Grace Paley
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. -- Ernst Haas
Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name? -- Adam Carolla
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to. -- Edith Hamilton
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. -- Plutarch
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. -- Henry David Thoreau
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living. -- Andrew Young
The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point. -- Leonard Ravenhill

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