Much Quotes

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

Man knows so much and does so little.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.