Top 100 More Than Anything Else Quotes
#1. I get to leave here and do what I love, whether I win or lose. And that seems to matter more than anything else.
Kelly Fiore Stultz
#2. I do think about having babies a lot, actually. I think I look forward to that more than anything else.
Adam Rodriguez
#3. The thing man loves more than anything else is to have his own way. Such is the supremacy of self. Abdicate? Never!
L.E. Maxwell
#4. I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#5. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James
#6. With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
Anthony Mackie
#7. America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.
Alice Walker
#8. It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
Viggo Mortensen
#9. I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else.
Miranda July
#10. I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.
Dave Barry
#11. And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6
Paul Tillich
#12. I'm not fond of crunches or lunges, but I do them anyway because I do see results. For me it's about being fit and staying healthy more than anything else.
Martina Mcbride
#13. You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else.
Carwyn Jones
#14. 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
J.K. Rowling
#15. Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders.
Jim Clifton
#16. I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
Matthew Pearl
#17. I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
Paul Auster
#18. How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.
Eric Hoffer
#19. I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
Ben Nicholson
#20. I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.
Salman Khan
#21. Don't wait for me anymore.
I hope for love for you.
I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness.
And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.
Ally Condie
#22. On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing.
But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.
Brenna Yovanoff
#23. Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.
Christa Wolf
#24. For everyone, success matters more than anything else. Whether you are a good guy or not, no one really cares. All they really care about is how successful you are.
Toffee
#25. The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Patsy Cline
#26. You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
Iain Banks
#27. I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.
Ally Condie
#28. If there was a choice on spending a lot of money on accessories or dress, I always chose accessories. I think jewelry can change an outfit more than anything else.
Iris Apfel
#29. The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.
Martha Plimpton
#30. Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.
Ian Bremmer
#31. And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.
Jimmy Buffett
#32. Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world - to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.
Rachel Ward
#33. I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
Jack McBrayer
#34. Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
Caity Lotz
#35. One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
Sam Yagan
#36. He was scared of us, and that, more than anything else, made me scared of him. His fear made him unpredictable.
Ransom Riggs
#37. Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.
Ashly Lorenzana
#38. Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
Caterina Murino
#39. Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world."
"Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.
Margaret Mitchell
#40. My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.
Sascha Radetsky
#41. If there is something we need more than anything else during grief, it is a friend who stands with us, who doesn't leave us. Jesus is that friend.
Billy Graham
#42. Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
Varley O'Connor
#43. Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.
Frank Laubach
#44. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
Benjamin Jowett
#45. Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.
William DeVries
#46. Sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.
Kiersten White
#47. I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
Jacques Villeneuve
#48. I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.
Adam Rapp
#49. Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.
Marc Chagall
#50. I wanted to tell her she was beautiful, but it almost seemed like saying that to her would be diminishing it. You don't reassure a rainbow it's colourful, or a star that it shines. Sometimes, not saying something says more than anything else.
Nina G. Jones
#51. I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
Lauren Bacall
#52. I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
Christine McVie
#53. More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
Meredith Baxter
#54. The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#55. All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.
Patrick Swift
#56. When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.
Ken McCarthy
#57. My bat mitzvah portion is about many things, but I think it is primarily about who we are wholly there for, and how that, more than anything else, defines our identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#58. First of all, you have to born with a brain. I mean, you can't be a dummy and say I'm going to become a multi-billionaire some day. But, more than anything else, you have to love what you do, and beyond that, you can't ever give up.
Donald Trump
#59. The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.
Judy Dater
#60. God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
Charles Stanley
#61. There is of course one thing that the French love more than anything else: a revolution. They literally cannot get enough.
@Queen_UK
#62. Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan
Laura Dave
#63. If anything, I learned most from being a huge fan of his and watching movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again - that influenced the kind of movies that I wanted to make more than anything else.
Nicole Holofcener
#64. I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.
Walter Munk
#65. I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.
Graham Moore
#66. The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.
Henning Mankell
#68. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.
Anna Quindlen
#69. I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.
Elton John
#70. Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo
#71. She'd wanted that, a grandfather. Someone who would stay. Michel had an eyetooth that turned sideways and she loved it more than anything else in the world. But someone wasn't yours because you loved a tooth.
Erika Swyler
#72. I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.
Tim Hawkins
#73. The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal government for solutions to problems great and small, real and imagined, personal as well as social.
Robert Higgs
#74. What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
Ella Fitzgerald
#75. If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.
Robert H. Schuller
#76. More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
Mike Pence
#77. Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
Zoe Tapper
#78. I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.
Chris Moneymaker
#79. In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Serj Tankian
#80. Things like this happened to men and women every day in every country in the world. Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn't will someone to love you back. You had to move on.
Anonymous
#81. More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.
John C. Maxwell
#82. What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
Ernest Gaines
#83. Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.
Sylvia Browne
#84. No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov
#85. It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.
T. W. Adorno
#86. More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
Brian Lamb
#87. The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.
Jane Goodall
#88. More than anything else, we want to fit into our own families.
David Levithan
#89. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
Mary Garden
#90. You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
Jamie Tworkowski
#91. There was only one answer. For tonight ... and everymore: "Because I love you more than anything else.
J.R. Ward
#92. People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.
Michael Pollan
#93. And only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn't an answer.
Michael Marshall Smith
#95. More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals.
Elizabeth Wein
#96. More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
Sean Connery
#97. I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.
Chris Christie
#98. It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
Jerome Cady
#99. J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who "had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent.
Michael Hofmann
#100. Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
Ben Feldman
