Top 100 It Than Quotes
#1. It's better to have something and not need it than to need something and not have it.
Julie Harrington
#2. There is more to it than just, you prosper, your enemies fail, said Mama Zouzou.
Neil Gaiman
#3. She stared at me. "I'm sure there's more to it than that, Ms. Moon." I was fairly certain that if she had a ruler, she would have rapped my knuckles with it. "Why
J.R. Rain
#4. Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
David Wain
#5. When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.
Sam Worthington
#6. Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it.
Dee Hock
#7. World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.
Louis MacNeice
#8. Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.
Robin Sacredfire
#9. They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#10. Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
Bertrand Russell
#11. Don't ever put yourself in that position again, do you understand me?
I can't promise that, I whispered quietly. I'd rather do it than lose you. Don't you understand how important you are to me?
Arielle Caldwell
#12. Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
Alan King
#13. God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
George Sand
#14. Augustine's Confessions ... "What it is, therefore," he begins, "that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?
Philip Yancey
#15. [O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).
Richard Baxter
#16. We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just ... well, better at it than most.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Jean Rostand
#18. But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.
John Varley
#19. He hugged her hard. I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.
Cindy Gerard
#20. The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.
Frederic G. Kenyon
#22. As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
#23. Lebedev: ... There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.
Anton Chekhov
#24. Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.
John Sandford
#25. I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!
Juno Temple
#26. Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.
Ann H. Gabhart
#27. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H.L. Mencken
#28. Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
#29. Never mind what lies behind Death, Mr. Bast, but be sure that the poet and the musician and the tramp will be happier in it than the man who has never learnt to say, 'I am I.
E. M. Forster
#30. I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.
Donatella Versace
#31. I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.
Annie Potts
#32. Nobody understands the world they're in, but some people are better off at it than others.
Richard Feynman
#33. Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.
Barney Frank
#34. For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.
Jose Mourinho
#35. Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it.
Nikita Dudani
#36. It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
Christy Turlington
#37. Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.
Marc Jacobs
#38. I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
Edwidge Danticat
#39. No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.
Teri Terry
#40. All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.
Samuel Johnson
#41. I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.
Jeff Gordon
#42. I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!
Joel Osteen
#43. The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#44. If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance.
Francis De Sales
#45. It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.
Simon Sinek
#46. Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that ... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.
Jean Helion
#47. He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.
Janet Fitch
#48. I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.
Steve Earle
#49. Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?
Gordon Bethune
#50. But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
Charley Pride
#52. He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.
Martin Edwards
#54. It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,
Steve Wozniak
#55. I've seen you handle your stick, Caleb. You're much better at it than I am
C.J. Roberts
#56. My first car was a Holden Commodore station wagon. I can't remember much more about it than that - it was coffee colored, and I think it was four cylinders, so it was really quite weak, but very safe for a young man to be driving.
Antony Starr
#57. The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#58. I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.
Eugene V. Debs
#59. It's always better to act on your silly idea and watch what becomes it, than to do nothing with it and call your self silly.
Sade Fadipe
#60. Nothing is more unbearable, once has it, than freedom.
James Baldwin
#61. For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.
Lorraine Moller
#62. It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber
#63. What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.
Mary Lou Retton
#64. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
#65. The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.
Billy Graham
#66. Your hard dick is poking me in the ass. I can no more ignore it than if you slapped me in the face with it.
Kristen Callihan
#67. I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.
Mehmet Oz
#68. You betrayed me too. I'm just better at it than you.
Jack Bauer
#69. Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
Peter Mutanda
#70. Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
Nicholas Sparks
#71. When faced with the end of all things, it was much easier to nibble at it than take it in large, indigestible bites.
Neal Shusterman
#72. You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.
T.I.
#73. I said, 'We have dreamed, dear friend. Another time, we might awaken. Let it be a dream forgotten at morning.' That seemed a better way of saying it than, 'Never remind me of this, for fear I should stick a knife in you.
Mary Renault
#74. So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.
Minister Faust
#75. It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.
Jane Swisshelm
#76. If there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.
Brian Andreas
#77. There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.
Martin Amis
#78. Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.
Orison Swett Marden
#79. When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.
Larry McMurtry
#80. There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.
John Calvin
#82. It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
Seneca The Younger
#83. It was like one of those dreams where you discover a previously unknown room in your house and you have that expansive feeling that your life has more possibility to it than you thought it did.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
Horace Walpole
#85. I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. I always feel I'm getting near to something that's got more to it than I can get hold of.
Jack Shadbolt
#87. I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.
Kristen Stewart
#88. Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Rene Descartes
#89. Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!
Elizabeth Warren
#90. 24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries. Food - there's no greater gift, and no better way to give it than the World Food Programme.
Dikembe Mutombo
#91. How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue ... Pray more words about it than you speak.
Lysa TerKeurst
#92. But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.
Cinda Williams Chima
#93. No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
Robert Heller
#94. The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.
Daniel Handler
#95. A story from beginning to end that might entertain, teach, or simply bore your listener. It's all in the delivery, my dear."
He got a smug look on his face as he scooted his posterior deeper into the chair and took his pipe between his teeth. "I'm just better at it than most.
Karen L Milstein
#96. Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
Mark Twain
#97. Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out.
Steven Erikson
#98. There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
Bianca Walkden
#99. The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
Robert Ballard
#100. The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
Penn Jillette
