Zitat des Tages über Kleiner / Lesser:
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.
I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.