As Much As Quotes

#1. You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. We had allowed our eyes to meet only once- by accident as much as out of necessity- and not ten seconds had passed before the agony had become too great to bear and we had retreated into silence and coldness once more.

Kailin Gow

#3. As much as I don't want it to be true, the reasons I don't do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.

Dan Pearce

#4. You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.

Tom Rath

#5. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Peter Drucker

#6. You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

Candace Bushnell

#7. I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

Grimes

#8. Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure.

George R R Martin

#9. Cry as much as you want to, but just make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again.

Wiz Khalifa

#10. It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That's me. I don't think I will ever change that.

Albert Pujols

#11. During your job search, you must also be networking as much as possible, attending events, talks, lectures, and conferences where you'll meet people you can add to your contact list.

Kate White

#12. A coat is not worth eight times as much as a hat to the community because it takes eight times as long to make it ... The community is willing to devote eight times as long to the making of a coat because it will be worth eight times as much to it

Mark Skousen

#13. Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

Vidya Balan

#14. No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't like.

Walter Slezak

#15. A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.

Christopher Moore

#16. Lord, I can't live in his mashed potato world. I need my tubers scalloped and diced and baked and fried and different every time. I need excitement and change as much as I need air.

Lorna Seilstad

#17. I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.

Ellar Coltrane

#18. I needed her heart and mind as much as her body. I needed her, and her lack caused an ache in my chest as I drifted off to sleep.

Richelle Mead

#19. I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake."
"Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

Erin Morgenstern

#20. The appearance doesn't matter as much as the content.

Katherine Harris

#21. If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

Franz Kafka

#22. I live a fantastic life; I have fantastic friends - I stay out of the Hollywood stuff as much as I can because it's so much fun that you don't want to go down that path; you just want to work.

Sasha Jackson

#23. There are people in Europe that struggled during an entire life to save as much as possible in banks that bankrupted and left them homeless.

Robin Sacredfire

#24. No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Rabih Alameddine

#25. I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. Someone will care if you just give 'em a chance. There's always people who need you as much as you need them. Don't you forget that. All you got to do is find 'em. And when you do, you find you're happier carin' about someone else than just about yourself all the time.

Ester Wier

#27. Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.

Hasso Plattner

#28. The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.

Merle Shain

#29. Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Maya Angelou

#30. Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.

Keeth Smart

#31. Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Walter Jon Williams

#32. She nodded seriously. "That's as much as I've guessed too." She paused to look at the circle the horizon made around us. The wind caught her hair and she brushed it back again. "Do you happen to know where I'm going?

Patrick Rothfuss

#33. I didn't want to be a virgin. That much I knew. I didn't want to feel like the immature prude who knew nothing about sex. I hated not knowing things. The trouble was ... as much as I didn't want to be a virgin, I also didn't want to have sex.

Cora Carmack

#34. What worried me almost as much as letting myself down if I gained it all back, was letting everyone else down. Being a failure. The pressure, the foreignness of it all caused the welling up of a deep, deep insecurity.

Andie Mitchell

#35. Maybe," thought Francie, "she doesn't love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved.

Betty Smith

#36. Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.

Stephen Colletti

#37. I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Marion Barry

#38. Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.

Ben Affleck

#39. Sometimes just seeing a woman smile is like a knife in the heart. It hurts and it rattles your whole system, but against all your instincts you swallow the pain and keep looking. After a while you realize it doesn't hurt as much as you thought it would.

Richard Kadrey

#40. I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

Frank Warren

#41. For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.

William Moseley

#42. We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

Aesop

#43. If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.

Carlo Borromeo

#44. As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone.

Raphael Zernoff

#45. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#46. With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.

Maddy Malhotra

#47. I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.

Zoe Trope

#48. I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that.

Avey Tare

#49. It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

Garry Shandling

#50. We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.

Mick Jagger

#51. Our souls clung to each other as much as our bodies did. And yes, there was healing.

Mia Sheridan

#52. You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

Coretta Scott King

#53. Greenland ice cores show the temperatures there changing by as much as 8 degrees Celsius in ten years, drastically altering rainfall patterns and growing conditions.

Bill Bryson

#54. As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

Nicole Kidman

#55. God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

Johannes Tauler

#56. God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

James Russell Lowell

#57. Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.*

Louisa May Alcott

#58. People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent ... I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Bo Belinsky

#59. If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.

John Stossel

#60. Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody;
for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.

George MacDonald

#61. Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

Adyashanti

#62. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable.

Hermann Hesse

#63. Tonight was awful. It was the combination of everything. Of the play "Goodbye My Fancy," of wanting, in a juvenile way, to be, like the heroine, a reporter in the trenches, to be loved by a man who admired me, who understood me as much as I understood myself.

Sylvia Plath

#64. There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Jasper Fforde

#65. We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.

Gene Hill

#66. A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.

Helen McCrory

#67. Memory fills my body as much as blood and bones.

Colm Toibin

#68. I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

Julia Sawalha

#69. Lily looks back down at the necklace in her hand that Kavita had given her. "It must have cost a fortune."
"It did." He confirms. "Though not nearly as much as you're worth."
Lily looks up at him. "Don't say that. You hurt me everytime you speak.

Carroll Bryant

#70. Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.

Common

#71. But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

Alice Munro

#72. A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

Christina Romer

#73. Here, you are exceptional ... There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

Rachel Caine

#74. As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

Tate Taylor

#75. I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

Woody Allen

#76. As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Coolio

#77. I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot ...

Jonah Goldberg

#78. I picked out a question with care. You have to be careful with strangers; questions can reveal as much as answers -Eve

Michele Jaffe

#79. You poor darling," said his wife, coming quickly to his side. She cradled his head against her breasts, a position he unaccountably loathed as much as she was fond of putting him in it, but which he tolerated now for tactical reasons. "What you need is a nice strong drink," she said.

L.J. Davis

#80. Love is a choice as much as it is magic. Magic comes in moments, but choices stretch out over time. We make them new each morning.

Jamie Tworkowski

#81. DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

Jodi Picoult

#82. I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.

Karen Traviss

#83. Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.

Sue Barker

#84. Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss.

L.M. Montgomery

#85. A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine.

Teresa Mummert

#86. Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

Gail Carriger

#87. If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Mary Gaitskill

#88. All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

Michael Scott

#89. It's sad to say, but as much as I cared for the Old Man, and worried about him, I was glad not to have to live with him. I just left him to himself and never looked back.

Barack Obama

#90. As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

Jessica Biel

#91. I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

Sally Hawkins

#92. Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Paul A. Offit

#93. The world will destroy her in the end. Too much spark leads to explosions. But your sister will destroy as much as she can before she goes out. She will go down in flames and blood.

Kiersten White

#94. As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Steven Sinofsky

#95. It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even in his boyhood, and now that darkness seems to be seeping from the stones and timbers as much as it was descending from heavens.

K.J. Wignall

#96. You can have this as the best Christmas ever as much as you gaze into your Father's face and receive His gift.

Ann Voskamp

#97. You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Michael B. Jordan

#98. Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you
breathe.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#99. Big mama didn't tell her as much as she probably could have, but she was so proud of Chanel and everything that she had accomplished and was accomplishing. Chanel

Nako

#100. I will never want anything as much as I want you. I will never love anything as much as I love you.

Amy A. Bartol