More Than Quotes

#1. If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Walter Jon Williams

#2. The fuck ups are how we learn, and sometimes we need to do the same fuck up more than once to get the message

Lina Andersson

#3. No, sweeties, don't let them do that to you. You were there for more than forty-eight hours, and that awful part lasted one hour. Don't let them take that away from you, okay?

R.J. Palacio

#4. Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.

Conn Iggulden

#7. Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Ilka Chase

#8. Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

Simon Sinek

#9. Consider the magnitude of this... Taxonomists have described almost a million species of arthropods, and all fit into four major groups; one quarry in British Columbia, representing the first explosion of multicellular life, reveals more than twenty additional arthropod designs!

Stephen Jay Gould

#10. To want is more than to attain.

Georgiana Goddard King

#11. I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.

Tim Hardaway

#12. You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Peg Bracken

#13. With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

Iyad Allawi

#14. Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man ... requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.

Simon Newcomb

#15. You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Francesca Annis

#16. If something or someone is presented to us once, we will often dismiss it as being nothing more than happenstance. If that person or situation is presented twice, it is God slapping us in the face and telling us to pay attention. It is fate.

Scott Hildreth

#17. God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Craig Groeschel

#18. As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

Jay Samit

#19. Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.

David Z. Hirsch

#20. I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.

Anquan Boldin

#21. The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .

John F. Kennedy

#22. She bit her lip; she missed Ash. It was like a pain in her ribs, an ache that wouldn't cease. His experience would have been a big help, but more than that, he never made her feel inferior. Funny how her father was so good at that.

Annette Marie

#23. Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

Rose George

#24. He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

Irene Nemirovsky

#25. Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.

Joan Smalls

#26. When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

George Carlin

#27. I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.

A.E.W. Mason

#28. I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.

Jason Isbell

#29. She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking

Dan Brown

#30. What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.

Somaly Mam

#31. To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.

John Amos

#32. I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.

Eric Ries

#33. Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.

Letitia Baldrige

#34. i will miss you more than i can show you or tall you

Good Charlotte

#35. admitted it to be no more than due decorum." - Emma

Jane Austen

#36. Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

Brene Brown

#37. This feels like so much more than just a kiss. It feels like a confession.

Beth Michele

#38. The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

William Jennings Bryan

#39. Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

Gregory Maguire

#40. A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

John Henry Newman

#41. I need to remember that there's more than one way people show love. And even though his way and my way are completely opposite, it's still love.

Colleen Hoover

#42. Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

John Fowles

#43. Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Jean Baudrillard

#44. Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.

Rachel Vail

#45. History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#46. I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

William Shakespeare

#47. Prosperity is so much more than money!

Peggy Frazier Doviak

#48. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.

Bart Yates

#49. I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#50. Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

Janis Joplin

#51. If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

Kent Beck

#52. I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

Gary Kovacs

#53. Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#54. I had, even in this miserable condition, been comforted with the knowledge of Himself, and the hope of His blessing: which was a felicity more than sufficiently equivalent to all the misery which I had suffered, or could suffer.

Daniel Defoe

#55. In a relationship, the sum of your parts should equal more than just you by yourself. He needs to bring something new and different to the table to up the ante.

Chelsea Handler

#56. Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.

Christopher McDougall

#57. Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Vincent De Paul

#58. I love her. More than I thought I was capable of, and I would sacrifice my life for her happiness.

Katie McGarry

#59. I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.

Tom Lehman

#60. Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2

Daphne Zuniga

#61. [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

#62. Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

Doug Wead

#63. Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#64. He despised the words leaving his mouth, hating the way they made him feel. Exposed. Open. By a girl who didn't weigh more than his cock. A girl who stared at him with eyes of fire, who pushed buttons he didn't know he had, and had wormed her way inside a part of him that should be closed.

Alessandra Torre

#65. The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It's like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more than you can handle, you get stronger. In life, when the gun is to your head, you either figure it out, or you die.

Claudia Azula Altucher

#66. Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

Mark Pincus

#67. Robbie dropped his chin a little as if considering what Stephen said. Maybe not, but whispering from your heart ain't always easy; and Dusty knew that real well, probably more than either of us.

Brandon Shire

#68. I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

#69. You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

Terry Pratchett

#70. Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Mark Matthews

#71. There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

Jay Leno

#72. As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.

John Battelle

#73. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,

N.D. Wilson

#74. Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

William Hazlitt

#75. All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#76. Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Daniel Alarcon

#77. The sixteen hundred dairies in California's Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that's more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

Gene Baur

#78. Growth is much more than a strategy. It is a complex change process that involves the right mindset, the right processes, experimentation, and an enabling environment.

Edward D. Hess

#79. Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#80. We were failures, all of us. We told him we had our reasons for the way things had turned out, but he didn't want to hear it. Told us that nothing consumed a man's soul more than the easy excuse.

William Lashner

#81. Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

Simon Critchley

#82. She'd always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty seemed to come tethered to confidence. She craved that more than anything.

Tessa Dare

#83. Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#84. I don't know where my songs come from ... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Judy Collins

#85. He could never imagine himself with anyone other than Maureen; they had shared so much. To live without her would be like scooping out the vital parts of himself, and he would be no more than a fragile envelope of skin.

Anonymous

#86. Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Joe Torre

#87. It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

Mary McDonnell

#88. Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Lily King

#89. There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Hannah More

#90. Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

Lorene Scafaria

#91. There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Fannie Hurst

#92. The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. So it should make sense that by taking on more than you can handle, you accomplish more than you ever dreamed you could. And so it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#93. We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

#94. Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

Ian McEwan

#95. Minds differ still more than faces.

Voltaire

#96. People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

Melina Marchetta

#97. It was more than the war that changed me - Corin

Claire M. Banschbach

#98. If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people.

Robert Downey Jr.

#99. The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

Randy Newman

#100. Kindness effects more than severity.

Aesop