#less

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cable #distance #facilities #gives #lessen

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#futile #knowledge #useless #without

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #passion #religion #romance

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ↗

— Balthus

#anguish #endless #great #painting #pleasure

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#careless #daylight #difference #gambler #his

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#less #more #more and more #more or less #our

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#i #least #play #right #sweat

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. ↗

— Abdallah II

#dispossessed #division #earth #extremists #global

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#answer #difficult #get #how #ideas