Top 100 Be More Quotes
#1. Way I figure it, if I'm forced to have a partner, might as well have one with benefits. If you're annoying me, fucking you will be more satisfying than punching you." Prophet grinned, then added slyly, "And I could punch you afterwards.
S.E. Jakes
#2. The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#3. One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.
Forrest Curran
#4. Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
Regina Brett
#5. I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.
Jen Kirkman
#6. The Tibetan word for meditation is gom, which can be more literally translated as "become familiar with.
Lodro Rinzler
#7. Safety Tip: Over the years I have learned that tackling the hard stuff in the morning is the most productive way to start your day. After the hard stuff is done, you get to do some fun stuff later, and this allows you to be more productive.
John Richard Pierce
#8. Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Margaret Chase Smith
#9. Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.
Jennifer Touma
#10. Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be".
Jennifer Chiaverini
#11. You can't look at people based on face value. There has to be more.
Carey Anderson
#12. So then, perhaps there would be more justice in the bigger and it would be easier to observe closely. If you want, first we'll investigate what justice is like in the cities. Then, we'll also go on to consider it in individuals, considering the likeness of the bigger in the idea24 of the littler?
Plato
#13. Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'..
Peggy McIntosh
#14. We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.
Shinzo Abe
#16. From the vantage of the early twenty-first century, it might be more accurate to say, with no disrespect, that Arthur Conan Doyle originated Sherlock Holmes. The rest of us, obviously, aren't yet finished creating him.
Zach Dundas
#17. I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.
Russ Feingold
#19. more than others see. Be more than others are. You're too interesting to be single layered. Too many people go through life seeing only what they expect. They view life waiting to be heard, rather than listening and seeing what others do not.
Melissa Foster
#20. I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
John Hickenlooper
#21. I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.
Manolo Blahnik
#22. If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.
Shane Claiborne
#24. You should be more careful
when you move, my dear
what with you...
spilling moonlight
into my poem, with a mere
flick of your hand.
Sanober Khan
#25. Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
Robert Green Ingersoll
#26. I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.
Janet Evanovich
#27. There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped. But even if they're invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.
Lisa Randall
#28. Well, we'll have to agree to disagree." I hated that phrase. It was code for, "I know you're too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I'm going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.
Jess Lourey
#29. We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of professionals. We valued it for what it could tell us about the details of people's daily lives.
Fred Ritchin
#30. Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.
John Wooden
#31. Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
David Farland
#32. The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#33. I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.
Alexander Gustafsson
#34. To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
Carrie Brownstein
#35. Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental.
Charles F. Glassman
#37. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
Paul Fleischman
#38. One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.
Frederick Buechner
#39. If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
John Vanbrugh
#40. No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.
Shunryu Suzuki
#41. Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.
Rebecca Mead
#43. We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#44. There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.
Robin Quivers
#45. The graying hair on the back of his head was swept forward, a comical arrangement to disguise his bald spot. He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious. A firm science like chemistry, maybe.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#46. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.
William Shakespeare
#47. The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
Adam Christopher
#48. I realized that she had simply fulfilled her mission in this life and that she had escaped another dimension where her spirit, finally free of its material burden, would be more at home
Isabel Allende
#49. Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher
#50. Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
Agatha Christie
#51. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.
Anthony Noto
#52. What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?
Jeanne DuPrau
#53. If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
Walter Jon Williams
#54. It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
Bob Goff
#55. Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#56. A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.
Mark Kostabi
#57. An arm snaked around my waist, pulling me to a stop. For the first time in my life I was literally stuck between two boys. Huh. And here I thought it would be more fun than this.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#58. It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Jamie Bamber
#59. I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne
#60. I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.
Anquan Boldin
#61. Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
Monica Johnson
#62. When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.
Kevin Eikenberry
#63. Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.
Kelly Hu
#65. What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.
Mae West
#66. We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.
Emma Watson
#67. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.
Ertharin Cousin
#68. All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Woody Norris
#69. I fled, or at least, backed awkwardly away from journalism because I wanted the freedom to make things up. I did not want to be nailed to the truth; or to be more accurate, I wanted to be able to tell the truth without ever needing to worry about the facts. And
Neil Gaiman
#71. The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
Frederick Franck
#72. A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why ... There must be more
Andrew Peterson
#73. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#74. We love the idea of transformation, so we can make ourselves something more than just ordinary. It's why you're doing this, isn't it?" she asked. "You don't want to settle for what you are; you want to be more. You want to win.
Abby McDonald
#75. I feel like each time I do something I want it to be more and more recognizable that it's me so, by the time I do a film, my films will be as recognizable as someone like David Lynch or someone who's got their own thing going on.
Chris Cunningham
#76. Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
Jack Paar
#77. I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
Manolo Blahnik
#78. We ... live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, we're in a world that's so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.
Neal A. Maxwell
#79. Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.
Charles Darwin
#80. Your hug should be more than an embrace of affection. It represents her safety and security. It should make her feel truly loved.
Tony Curl
#81. If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton
#82. One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
Henri Nouwen
#83. We may call it "people pleasing," but it is entirely self-serving because it is really all about keeping myself comfortable. Boiled down, it could be more accurately called "me pleasing.
Emily P. Freeman
#84. I grow stronger with every moment. I will be wild. I will be brutal. I will encircle you and conquer you. I will be more powerful than your boats and your swords and your blood lust. I will be inevitable.
Rachel Swirsky
#85. Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.
Alex Pareene
#86. I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.
Arianna Huffington
#87. Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.
Theodore Ts'o
#88. Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you're sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.
Madeleine George
#89. I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!
Russell Tovey
#90. There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.
Raph Koster
#91. I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.
Matthea Harvey
#92. Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [ ... ] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#93. Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn't want them to be first & best.
Megha Khare
#94. In large studio paintings ... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded ...
Walter J. Phillips
#95. Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don't become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.
Marvin J. Ashton
#96. The rest of my time will be more productive if you give me my workout time- Barack Obama
Hanningtone Asava
#97. To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who come after we have gone.
Ander Monson
#98. Teachers who are accountable to principals who are, in turn, accountable to school communities are likely to be more professionally 'grounded' and less susceptible to avant garde fashions in curriculum and pedagogy. School
Tony Abbott
#99. At its core, comedy is an act of rebellion. Evidence shows that compared to the norms in the population, comedians tend to be more original and rebellious - and the higher they score on these dimensions, the more professional success they attain. After
Adam M. Grant
#100. I liked him I just didn't like complicated. And what could be more complicated that a priest?
Marshall Thornton
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