Top 100 How Much More Quotes
#1. Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded!
Paul F. Kortepeter
#2. It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?
Liane Moriarty
#3. White undershirt. Dark-framed glasses. Sneak peeks at black boxers. Really? How much more was a girl supposed to be able to take before she either spontaneously combusted or found a shower with a removable showerhead?
Laura Kaye
#4. Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.
Amy Engel
#5. How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.
D. James Kennedy
#6. Not sure how much longer she can continue her fight for the children or how much more of her there is to give, she pledged to keep going until she no longer can.
Kay Bratt
#7. Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.
Richie Norton
#8. We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
Jeff Tweedy
#9. But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble.
Ben Okri
#10. This morning I was a servant, tonight I'm a princess. How much more will change?
Victoria Aveyard
#11. How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and ... ' than 'Yes, but ... '.
Lawrence Fagg
#12. Whenever I'm around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him.
Colleen Hoover
#13. How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.
William J.H. Boetcker
#15. If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
Matthew Simpson
#16. But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.
Epictetus
#17. I think because bullying has really become such a problem right now, I think it's maybe going to be more impactful right now, just because of where that is in society and how much more we're hearing about it.
Judy Greer
#18. If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
David Attenborough
#19. How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?
Amy Lowell
#20. Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
Bob Burg
#21. This explosion of athletic wear and rompers is very ironic when you think about how much more sedentary we've become. As we've become less active and higher-tech, we're wearing more and more workout clothes.
Tim Gunn
#22. My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?
Nora Roberts
#23. Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.
Ronald Kessler
#24. If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
Hosea Ballou
#25. A man sees only what concerns him ... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
Henry David Thoreau
#26. For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.
Pope Gregory VII
#27. I can't get clean." "That's because you're polishing a diamond. How much more brilliant do you want it to shine, my lovely?
Kristen Ashley
#28. Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.
Martin Amis
#29. If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?
Richard P. Feynman
#30. Even their mother missed them - and how much more their tender-hearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt for them, with a degree of affectionate regret which they had never done much to deserve!
Jane Austen
#31. It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.
Wim Wenders
#32. ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
Thomas Sowell
#33. If we approach medicine fearfully how much more so should we approach politics. But
Jordan M. Poss
#34. 7. All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Anonymous
#35. If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
Gautama Buddha
#36. It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."
Jim Gaffigan
#37. How vain it seems to write, when one knows how to feel
how much more near and dear to sit beside you, talk with you, hear the tones of your voice ... Give me strength, Susie, write me of hope and love, and of hearts that endure ...
Emily Dickinson
#38. And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet.
David Malouf
#39. If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Boris Pasternak
#40. Imagine what it would be like if we all saw each other as being more similar rather than different - how much less effort and energy would be spent on protecting ourselves and how much more fulfilling our interactions would be with each other.
Clifford Michaels
#41. For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news
as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
Tahir Shah
#42. Many people spend time studying the properties of animals or herbs; how much more important it would be to study those of people, with whom we must live or die!
Baltasar Gracian
#43. Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...
J.K. Rowling
#44. How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.
Robin Williams
#46. I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical. I thought that that must be embarrassing for him, and thought how much more pleasant it was to be a girl. That, by the way, is an opinion I still hold today.
Anne Desclos
#47. I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
Khloe Kardashian
#48. If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians
all sinners ourselves
treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?
Justin Lee
#49. You could have that sort of life if you ask God for it. If you give your life to God, He will provide for you in marvelous ways. He promises us that. If He takes care of the sparrows, how much more will He take care of us?
Matthew Quick
#50. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.
Heloise D'Argenteuil
#51. Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.
Jocelyn Brown
#52. All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.
Martin Luther
#53. Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.
Marilyn Grey
#54. But I trusted him once and I decide to do it again. I just pray to God he doesn't shove me down and break me, because I'm already in too many pieces and I just don't know how much more breaking I can take.
Jessica Sorensen
#55. Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.
Albert Finney
#56. The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together ...
Louise Penny
#57. If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be?
Sandy Carter
#58. Matheus thought he ranked fairly high on the scowling index, but looking at Zeb made him realize how much more he had to learn. Whole volumes of misanthropy were written into the eyebrows alone.
Amy Fecteau
#59. How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
William Shakespeare
#60. Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.
M. Russell Ballard
#61. REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.
Demetri Martin
#62. Once you're in a high-income bracket, say $100,000 or $200,000 or more, it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have.
Thomas J. Stanley
#63. One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.
Guy Finley
#64. But how much more pleasant was the sensation of being a missile without provenance or target, caught up in a tumult of non-Newtonian motion. So pleasant that pleasant was not the word.
Samuel Beckett
#65. How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
#66. But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time."
"You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. Oh shit, she'd done that wrong, hadn't she? She'd said that wrong, he didn't understand what she meant. She'd thought he would know, that he'd be able to read between the lines and understand, but what if he hadn't? SHould she say more? But how much more?
Stacia Kane
#68. Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
Nolan Bushnell
#69. On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
Seneca The Younger
#70. How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
Jean Piaget
#71. I don't know how much more of this 'sugarplum' shit I can take.
I'm about ready to hand over my balls just so he can feel what it's like to have a pair again.
-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain
Ashley Jade
#72. It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let go of how things should be and start to see possibility based on reality. It's YOUR life, grasp the steering wheel and force yourself to pay attention to where you're going.
Wendy Keller
#73. Elyse's rose-colored glasses were firmly back in place. How much more beautiful the world appeared through the eyes of love.
Penelope Marzec
#74. I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story - how many parts of it are never told - how much more really happened than there is in the book one holds in one's hand and pores over.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#75. We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
Virchand Gandhi
#76. You are the bloom of a spring, a poet's imagination so true ... It's amazing how much more beautiful you look, each time I see you.
Rohit Sharma
#77. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
#78. Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.
Rachel Simon
#79. A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.
Michael Dirda
#80. The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois Rabelais
#81. If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Zhuangzi
#82. If we can so easily remember catchy lyrics and memorable movie lines, how much more should we seek to remember the precious words of our Lord and Savior?
Wendy Blight
#83. If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
Wendy Kopp
#84. All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
Steven Saylor
#85. The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?
J.G. Ballard
#86. How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!
Richard Le Gallienne
#87. If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.
Huldrych Zwingli
#88. That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#89. How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#90. I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.
George Washington
#91. What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#92. On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.
Lee Rich
#93. Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.
Thornton Wilder
#94. Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.
Tom Verducci
#95. My beloved grows Right out of my own heart How much more union can there be.
Rumi
#96. It is shameful to hate a person who deserves your praises; but how much more shameful it is to hate someone for the very cause that makes him deserve your pity.
Seneca.
#97. What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?
Marvin Gaye
#98. We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#99. As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
Will Self
#100. If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
Helen Keller
