Much Quotes

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

He that travels much knows much.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

You never know how much time you have left.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.