#more or less

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#down #get #job #keep #less

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#done #effort #first #first time #focused

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand

I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#after #amount #because #been #coming

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#decision #default #drift #less #more

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#compelling #exercise #force #game #internal

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#charge #directly #director #film #hired

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#changes #leaving #less #melancholy #more

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess