Much Quotes

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

I think governments can't do much.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.