Top 100 More Than Quotes
#1. the door with a little more force than necessary and stepped inside the cool air-conditioned living room, leaving behind the
Kennedy Layne
#2. Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
Abdal Hakim Murad
#3. A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.
William Ritter
#5. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
Jonny Wilkinson
#6. The chief imagination of Christendom,
Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
That he has made that hollow face of his
More plain to the mind's eye than any face
But that of Christ.
William Butler Yeats
#7. I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.
Melina Marchetta
#8. I'll miss you, too. More than you know, he breathes.
E.L. James
#9. The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation.
Ray Rice
#10. The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated.
Christopher Hitchens
#11. Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman
#12. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot
#13. All you can be is you. Your true self shines with more beauty than your mind can ever know.
Sasha Martin
#15. Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.
Laurel Nakadate
#16. But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.
Sinclair Lewis
#18. Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Cory Doctorow
#19. There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me," Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#20. Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
Gore Vidal
#21. I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.
Lev Grossman
#23. Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
Sharon Salzberg
#24. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
#25. The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.
Lionel Suggs
#26. Plan?" Marasi asked.
"Not dyin'."
"Anything more detailed than that?"
"Not dyin' ... today?
Brandon Sanderson
#27. People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.
Lizz Wright
#28. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time.
Dean Koontz
#29. THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.
Tom Robbins
#30. She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
Harry Chapin
#31. The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Lord Chesterfield
#32. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.
Guy Berryman
#33. I figured out that I'm much more afraid of not being with you than I am being with you.
Kasey Michaels
#34. Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.
Paulo Coelho
#35. God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Ben Carson
#36. Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick ... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.
Rodrigo Rato
#37. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman
#38. There are more organisms living on the skin of a single human than there are humans living on earth * * * There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people alive on Earth * * *
Tasnim Essack
#39. It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
Michael Korda
#40. Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind which tells us that we are worth far more than our money.
Suze Orman
#42. Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.
Carolyn Porco
#43. The grease from the awful lunch buffet took to the air, becoming more a skin coating than a smell.
Harlan Coben
#44. I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#45. The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.
Oswald Chambers
#46. The reason God commands us to love Him with all our heart is not because He is an egomaniac! It is because He knows that anything we love more than Him will betray us. Eventually, we lose it by its death . . . or ours.
Matt Papa
#48. Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
Charlotte Bronte
#49. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
#50. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
#51. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.
Milton Friedman
#52. I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
Erykah Badu
#53. As Turkish entrepreneurs perform well in Iraq, the Iraqis will have more confidence in Turkish contractors than in some European company they do not know.
Husnu Ozyegin
#54. She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.
H.G.Wells
#55. She understood now why pain was the tithe for magic: It was more powerful than joy. Than anything.
Than hope?
Laini Taylor
#56. How humid the heart, its messy rooms! We eat spicy food, sweat like wood and smolder like the coal mine that caught fire decades ago, yet still smokes more than my great-uncle who will not quit- or go out-
Kevin Young
#57. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
Bobby Bowden
#59. Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
Vance Havner
#60. Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
Elihu Root
#61. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
Alan Furst
#62. Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who do read the Bible, did you know that the majority only read it during church or organized group Bible studies?
James A. Durham
#63. Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
Lesley Hazleton
#64. More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
#65. It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
H.G.Wells
#67. Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.
John Updike
#68. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.
Nora Roberts
#69. I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
Angel Olsen
#70. I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
Alexa Vega
#71. Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
David Hume
#72. There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.
Spencer Pratt
#73. You should eat more than that. It must take a lot of lettuce and carrots to keep up any kind of normal body weight.
Thea Harrison
#74. I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
Vincent Van Gogh
#75. Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
#77. I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
Naomie Harris
#78. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.
Nelson DeMille
#79. There is nothing in this world more powerful than the connection a person feels for another.
Rinda Elliott
#80. Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening - it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.
Andrew Hunt
#81. From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#82. By being silent he can do more than those who chatter. For he is in tune with the commandments as a harp is with its strings.
Cyril Charles Richardson
#83. I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#84. All sorts of people told me their stories. Then they left, never to return, as if I were no more than a bridge they were clattering across.
Haruki Murakami
#85. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#86. The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.
Warren Buffett
#87. My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.
Jim Parrack
#88. When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.
Luke Bryan
#89. It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Mindy McGinnis
#90. More men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.
Michael Coren
#91. A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.
Rosemary Daniell
#92. Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#93. The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.
Wynonna Judd
#94. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.
Randall Robinson
#95. I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#96. The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#97. The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Bob Woodward
#98. You know those moments, whether you're in them or not, you feel something more than what you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel.
Shey Stahl
#99. American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.
Paul Washer
#100. Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
John Wooden
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