Anything More Quotes

#1. I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

Hal Elrod

#2. An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

David Levithan

#4. Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

Abbi Glines

#5. If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Claus Von Stauffenberg

#6. No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.

Dara Horn

#7. Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.

Melissa Bank

#8. After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

Charles Nodier

#9. I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

Morgan Freeman

#10. We deserve what we earn. Anything more than that is wrong.

Barry Deutsch

#11. I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.

Michael Learned

#12. I married my best friend, and I couldn't ask for anything more. He's an unbelievable person.

Jodie Sweetin

#13. We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.

Frank A. Clark

#16. Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Edward Weston

#17. Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it?

Emil Cioran

#18. If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

William Overgard

#19. Why would you think there was anything more between me and Mr. Pinter?
Because you blush when his name is mentioned. Because he follows you with his eyes. Because I do not know what to make of him, and that worries me.

Sabrina Jeffries

#20. Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.

M.J. Ryan

#21. Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Raymond Chandler

#22. There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

Austin Butler

#23. Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Robert Frost

#24. Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling three stories above?

Elizabeth Camden

#25. I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

Lucinda Coxon

#26. I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ...

Elizabeth Goudge

#27. It's a very bizarre thing to have people very concerned with your life, but I don't mind it because all that says to me is that they care about the show, and I can't ask for anything more than that.

Sophia Bush

#28. There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.

Mark Zupan

#29. nobody loves anything more than freedom. Even love is secondary to freedom; freedom is the highest value. Love can be sacrificed for freedom, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for love.

Osho

#30. Maybe someone who dies at the age of a hundred doesn't feel anything more than the fear that grips us when we're six and it's nighttime and our mother comes in to turn out the light.

Kamel Daoud

#31. We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.

Niall Ferguson

#32. I'm not pretending this is anything more than a short-term relationship, but I like being with you even when there's no sex involved. That means you're not a booty call.

Georgia Cates

#33. Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Robert Charles Wilson

#34. I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

Leslie Fiedler

#35. The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Hanif Kureishi

#36. I can't imagine anything more dangerous to the enemy of our hearts than people who know who they are.

Emily P. Freeman

#37. I gave him a mocking smile. "Come on, Jack. Don't deprive me of the pleasure of watching you donate a DNA sample. I'll even pay for it."
"That offer might interest me," he said, "if it involved anything more exciting than a buccal swab."
-Ella & Jack

Lisa Kleypas

#38. My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

Alphonse Daudet

#39. I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.

Beth Revis

#40. I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become,
during his earlier years of a miller's life.

Jane Addams

#41. Anything more than 5/10ths makes me tense

Jarod Kintz

#42. But it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.

Anthony Doerr

#43. If he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

Benjamin Percy

#44. Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?

Jodi Picoult

#45. Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors

Thomas Ligotti

#46. I can't think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.

Jennifer Niven

#47. No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine.

Emma Straub

#48. The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10 14 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

Carl Sagan

#49. Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

Carsten Jensen

#50. I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

Charlie Kaufman

#51. I couldn't have asked for anything more than this. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. Thanks to my team-mates. Without them, nothing would have happened. I couldn't control my tears of joy.

Sachin Tendulkar

#52. Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

John Keegan

#53. Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Johann Arndt

#54. Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.

Harper Lee

#55. I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Arundhati Roy

#56. If you don't have faith in your own abilities, it's never going to be anything more than potential

Jon Skovron

#57. It had never occurred to Amithi that anything more than fine was an option.

Susan Gloss

#58. Is there anything more embarrassing than sailing into battle with half-finished figureheads? -Loki

Rick Riordan

#59. I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Jane Fonda

#60. Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard ... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

The Edge

#61. Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#62. I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race ... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

Alfred North Whitehead

#63. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Jonathan Kieran

#64. It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

William Anthony Donohue

#65. If you think Thanksgiving has been fun, just wait until Christmas."...
The doors slammed shut with a muffled thud, and all he could think about was the revenge she could be planning. He'd never looked forward to anything more in his life. "Game on.

Sara Humphreys

#66. It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.

Brigham Young

#67. Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Isaac Asimov

#68. If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Oscar Wilde

#69. I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Anatoly Karpov

#70. Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

T.H. White

#71. What we have is strong enough to transcend time. I've never trusted anything more in my life.

Michelle Madow

#72. To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

Bryan Adams

#73. Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway?

Dag Hammarskjold

#74. Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am ... ' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#75. When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.

Clifton Hill

#76. Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#77. Because King Silas
always gets what he wants, even if he doesn't want
anything more than to fuck with you.

Quil Carter

#78. I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

Jane Austen

#79. Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

Will Self

#80. You want me?" I repeated, my bewilderment not abating, but growing.
"I've never wanted anything more.

Nicole Williams

#81. If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Douglas Adams

#82. To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.

Pablo Tusset

#83. Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#84. I myself have never enjoyed anything more than writing. I love to live in that world.

Joss Whedon

#85. I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Ira Gershwin

#86. I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.
I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?

Michael Crichton

#87. He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.

Crystal Woods

#88. You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?

Charlie Kaufman

#89. I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.

Jason Momoa

#90. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Voltaire

#91. Is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay,
and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Margaret Deland

#92. To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

Bertrand Russell

#93. But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.

Craig Groeschel

#94. I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest - there is no occasion for anything more.

Jane Austen

#95. We all have something to offer. It's so important to be able to step out of our comfort zone and share the benefit of our experience with others who are trying to find their way. You can make a real difference and have real impact. I haven't experienced anything more satisfying than that.

David Gregory

#96. Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.

Arundhati Roy

#97. If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.

Victor Hugo

#98. The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.

Adrian Tomine

#99. Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Charles Caleb Colton

#100. Let no one be so mad as to believe that there is anything more pleasurable than history.

Nicetas Choniates