Much Quotes

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.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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?

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.

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.