Lesser Quotations | Page 2

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Artists, especially new artists and lesser known artists who did not have major backing, should find a more open environment to have their music heard and hopefully succeed,

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

I want my kids to have lesser of a headache than I have. Somebody has to take on the bullets, and if it's me that's fine with me.

I just think it's a joke. That's just terrible to me for society to see someone walk after stabbing somebody five times. I've known people who go to jail for a longer time for lesser crimes.

If you're a native high school dropout in this economy, you've got a slew of problems of which immigrant competition is but one, and a lesser one at that.

He's stuck it out when lesser men would walk away. I don't care what you call that, hubris or whatever. I truthfully think just changing the captain on the ship wouldn't have made any difference. If anything, it may have slowed things down because at least that captain knows the mistakes he made.

By now, you've had several years where this has sort of become the norm - and you can tell it's a pretty powerful norm, because people storm the court after a win that's not that big a win. It used to be reserved for beating a hated rival or winning a championship. Now you win a game against a lesser opponent, and you still do it.

By some people's standards, they might see that as struggling, but I see it as just him settling down. A lesser person might give up after struggling early, but that's not Jeff. He just keeps battling.

I presume it will be someone of a lesser standing (than Schroeder), so the SPD mark on German foreign policy will be weaker.

The retail environment is nowhere near what it was 15 to 20 years ago. Jobs are not as plentiful as they once were. The paper mill has become more and more automated with a lesser need for people.

It was a great game, obviously. I'm proud of our players. Guys with lesser character would have been too down to show up to play or would have panicked when things were going against us.

Apple is, in many ways, a market unto itself, ... We believe there is a high likelihood that investors will overreact to this news and take down the PC names in sympathy. We would particularly view this as a buying opportunity for Gateway, and to a lesser extent, Compaq and Dell.

Apple is, in many ways, a market unto itself. We believe there is a high likelihood that investors will overreact to this news and take down the PC names in sympathy. We would particularly view this as a buying opportunity for Gateway, and to a lesser extent, Compaq and Dell.

The drop is mostly from refining capacity comeback and, to a lesser degree, lower demand.

The Hong Kong market takes the lead from Wall Street and, to a lesser extent, other overseas markets such as Tokyo.

The UAW has a lot of incentive to negotiate concessions out of court, given the lesser influence it would have in a bankruptcy scenario.

The cutting of jobs in some areas has bitten too hard ... and customers are getting a lesser service and that will have ramifications for the business.

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

It's a real challenge -- I don't think that just because you're away you expect a lesser result. But there are different factors in terms of playing tennis. The courts are different. Their courts are a little faster.

Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the academic system and did everything proper. He had an enormous ego -- any lesser ego would have given up. He publishes this stuff and nobody pays attention for four years, but he is possessed -- and that's what makes him hell to be with as a human.

They often have a lesser curriculum, less challenges, less demands. And it's totally unfair to have these two different systems.

It's just aggravating, ... Hale is retired somewhere, fat and happy, while others who are accused of much lesser crimes face court-martials, public humiliation and financial ruin.

To a lesser degree than Cincinnati, we've created a monster that our expectations are NCAA. ... I don't mind that. It's a little unfortunate that the NIT is not seen as a positive thing.

It may be personal choice, but they are still getting a lesser benefit and that is the discriminatory part.

It's a very delicate kabuki dance that we do between privacy and security, and I think to some greater or lesser extent you need to plug into the fact that your individual privacy might damage the majority's safety.

This is trying to assure that self-pay patients, particularly of modest or lesser means, aren't going to be disadvantaged because they don't have insurance companies to represent them,

How well this hotline does its job remains to be seen. Part of having a hotline is having people on the other end who are trained to separate out what is of immediate concern and what is of lesser concern.

I don't think that this family is odd. People may have greater or lesser elements of drama in their Thanksgiving Day. But I recognize these people.

I'd much rather have this challenge than having to deal with lesser known countries. The challenge we have in particular ... everybody has basically written us off.

For some reason, it put me at peace. We don't know where we're going to be next. And who's to say that the next place we go is greater or lesser than where we are (now). But we're just happy with the current state and not knowing the unknown. For me, it did a lot psychologically.

The lesser evil is also evil.

All of these seemingly unrelated people were trading in the same stocks. They were lesser known stocks one wouldn't expect them all to be trading together.

The David Souter example - and to a lesser extent Anthony Kennedy - have made conservatives exceedingly skeptical of any urge to just 'trust me,'

The lesser countries seem to get poor decisions all the time. It's not acceptable.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.