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.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.