#less

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#be careful #because #blessed #careful #different

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#i #interested #less #many #much

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#characters #every #four #i #like

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. ↗

— George MacDonald

#being #does #gets #know #knows

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#fear #inspires #less #love #offending

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#dealt #drop #give #handed #less

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

#helplessly #impossible #oneself #open #talk