Than Quotes

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.