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.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

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.

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

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.