Top 100 Is More Quotes
#1. I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
Clarence Darrow
#2. Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.
Toks Olagundoye
#3. Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.
Bryant McGill
#4. Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.
Elizabeth Goudge
#5. Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#6. What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.
Charles Dickens
#7. Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
Regina Brett
#8. What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals."
Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it.
Jennifer Estep
#9. The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
Cecil Balmond
#10. My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.
Jonas Salk
#11. Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom
#12. Nothing is more useful than to look upon the world as it really is, and at the same time to seek elsewhere ... for the solace to its troubles.
Pope Leo XIII
#13. Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.
Chinua Achebe
#14. My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.
Teju Cole
#15. It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
Josh Schwartz
#17. Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
Suetonius
#18. I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.
Tim Powers
#19. In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too.
Dan Abnett
#20. I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise ... it's a consistent reward for victory!
Sasha Azevedo
#21. Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#22. You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
Nelson Mandela
#23. All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
Mark Viduka
#24. When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.
Tanya Masse
#25. I find love is more of a bacterium than a virus unless you are comparing it to herpes.
Amanda Mosher
#26. Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#27. My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.
Manish Dayal
#28. I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
Bill Callahan
#29. Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
Clint Eastwood
#31. A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
Paul Eluard
#32. The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
Christopher Eccleston
#33. Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
#34. The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.
Ilan Ramon
#35. She's like a fix to an addiction. I thought if I had a taste, I'd want it less, but fuck me, all I can think of is more. Take more, want more, feel more, need more.
K. Bromberg
#36. Confronted with the truly microscopic, all loftiness is hopeless, completely meaningless. The diminutive of the parts is more impressive than the monumentality of the whole. I no longer have any use for the sweeping gestures of heroes on the global stage. I'm going for a walk.
Joseph Roth
#37. The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin Disraeli
#38. I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.
Nicholas Stoller
#39. What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Archibald MacLeish
#40. To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first - she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance - actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
Barbara Demick
#42. God is more generous than men and will measure them by a different standard.
Jorge Luis Borges
#43. Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.
William C. Brown
#44. I think it is quite remarkable actually that Pope Benedict has a sense of the variety of ways in which it is possible to be a Catholic. I think he is more comfortable with a plurality of expressions of Catholicism in different rites, traditions than many of us are.
Vincent Nichols
#45. Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
Benjamin Disraeli
#46. Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes
#48. It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.
Brian Morton
#49. I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.
Luis Gonzalez
#51. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
Isabel Allende
#52. The GPS on the car dashboard proves that there is more than one route to our goals
Robert J. Bannon
#53. Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.
Saint John Chrysostom
#54. When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
Sophocles
#55. When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
Idries Shah
#56. Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
Paul Shepard
#57. In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.
Carmine Gallo
#58. Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.
Ai Weiwei
#59. The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik at the beginning of the twentieth century or Jihadi at the start of the twenty-first, have much in common.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#60. In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.
Douglas Wilson
#61. The solution to our water problems is more rain.
Mark Twain
#62. Popularity is more than looks. It's not clothes, hair, or even possessions. When we let go of these labels, we see how flimsy and relative they actually are. Real popularity is kindness and acceptance. It is about who you are, and how you treat others.
Maya Van Wagenen
#63. Nothing is more terrifying to a man than an angry woman. Add a long wooden implement to the equation and the effect is profoundly unnerving.
Sean Cullen
#65. Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#66. Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.
Nick Hanauer
#67. [I]t is more than slightly ironic that Democrats, the fiercely pro-choice party, reserve free choice for aborting a fetus, while denying it for such matters as choosing your child's school or joining a union.
Charles Krauthammer
#68. So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
Peter Singer
#69. Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.
Hyeonseo Lee
#70. It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
Alva Myrdal
#71. I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
William Gibson
#72. Jail is more commonly-suited to those less-commonly able to finance a defense (or to potentially pander the prosecution). The choices for council is either a retained lawyer or, by default, a public defender. In the later of these two, the common title in jail was 'public pretender'.
H. Kirk Rainer
#73. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
William Shakespeare
#74. She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.
Neal Shusterman
#75. No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
George MacDonald
#76. Right now, we have an economy in trouble. And, someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in POLITICS and as a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.
Mitt Romney
#77. What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.
Manoj Arora
#78. The agile way is more adapt to changes but shall not lose the sight of big picture.
Pearl Zhu
#79. Because life is more than the shoes your feet are in. More than the person you are. It's the togetherness. The parts of yourself in another. Memories and walls and cupboards and drawers with compartments for cutlery, so you know where everything is.
Fredrik Backman
#81. If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
Abraham Lincoln
#82. The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#83. For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and decorum than to endure minor inconvenience with constancy
C.S. Lewis
#84. As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!
Richard Rohr
#85. Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself.
Marty Rubin
#86. The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.
Edward T. Hall
#87. Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.
Catherine Deneuve
#88. If we don't make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they'll stop coming to Mexico. They'll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#89. Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#90. Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
Jay-Z
#91. Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
Ray J
#92. Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.
Stanislaw Ulam
#94. I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.
Julie Taymor
#95. Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E.B. White
#96. You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."
I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of
when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.
V.C. Andrews
#97. Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
Steve Pavlina
#98. There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.
Stetson Kennedy
#99. You show me how much you don't know. He is more than a man. He is a monster.
Susan Fanetti
#100. We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
Edward James Olmos
