Than His Quotes

#1. Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.

Jonathan Cahn

#4. To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.

Scott Hahn

#5. Stewart got out of the truck and walked into the wheat field he'd parked beside. The stalks grew higher the deeper into the field he went. He continued walking. The stalks were slightly taller than his waist, but he still didn't know what to say.

Andrew Kaufman

#6. A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Frederick W. Smith

#7. Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission ... were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable.

Jonathan Edwards

#8. Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

David Gemmell

#9. Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?
Why am I not enough to live for?

Libba Bray

#10. Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Charles Buxton

#11. Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.

Adam McKay

#12. Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;

Harper Lee

#13. He had more than his share of that streak of anarchy which was the birthright of every American.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. His eyes search mine, more serious than his tone would indicate, and I know he's looking to see whether or not I'm falling apart. He doesn't need to.

Kiersten White

#15. A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Dixon Lanier Merritt

#16. He was discovering that may be there was more him than his name. And may be, when all was said and done, he'd still be whole.

Julia Quinn

#17. In modeling, the colour of a man's teeth is more important than his IQ.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

Anne Lamott

#19. Your firstborn son, Claudius, was all a man could hope for - a son better and wiser than his father.

Pierce Brown

#20. An angry man is twice stronger than his normal.

Vignesh S.V

#21. No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Matthew Henry

#22. To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. I'm not sure how long we sit in Josh's truck, holding hands, surrounded by darkness and unspoken regrets. But it's long enough to know that there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand.

Katja Millay

#24. A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

Mark Barnes

#25. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Terry Goodkind

#26. His touch fucked with my ability to concentrate even more than his presence already had. My lower belly was in a state of what-the-fuck-are-you-doing? My skin was in a state of "holy fucking hell let him touch every part of you" and my vagina had pulled out the fucking welcome mat.

Nina Levine

#27. If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Rockwell Kent

#28. A student with greater talent than his teacher needs great humility.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#29. In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Andre Malraux

#30. A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

John C. Maxwell

#31. There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#32. He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.

Sharon Kay Penman

#33. They cracked more than his ribs.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#34. Keep 'im off it, then," Elvira declared. "Man's gettin' more than his fair share of blowjobs, gonna have his mind on his woman's mouth, not on some motherfucker with a screw loose." A giggle erupted from me because that was the truth.

Kristen Ashley

#35. I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#36. In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

Natalie Goldberg

#37. They broke more than his ribs.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#38. He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#39. When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.

Ogwo David Emenike

#40. When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#41. Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

Monica Furlong

#42. How did you know what I was thinking?" Her body jolted at the touch of his hand, wanting more than his hand touching her.
"I know these things. I can read your mind."
"Oh." A heat singed her skin.
"I know about your husband, Richard. He's not good.

Nancy Glynn

#43. One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.

Tracy Hickman

#44. I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

Leslie Fiedler

#45. Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

Haruki Murakami

#46. Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Don Meyer

#47. In all his years he had not seen one as ancient as this, so obviously belonging to a world far older than his own.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#48. No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

John Stuart Mill

#49. The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.

Phil Baker

#50. A true artist would see his family starve, rather than work at anything other than his art.

Anonymous

#51. After a minute a willowy woman with a baby boy came out. The baby was swinging a crystal from a string. I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't.

Miranda July

#52. I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#53. No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

#54. Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.

Thomas Jefferson

#55. You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

William G. Boykin

#56. How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Shelley

#57. But he had the tendency of all wildly disorganised people to suppose that the lives of others were tamer and less sensual and more cerebral than his own.

James Baldwin

#58. When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin.

Rex Stout

#59. A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#60. It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#61. The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Louisa May Alcott

#62. He was munificent and liberal to outsiders, but a plunderer of his people, trusting strangers rather than his subjects. . . . [H]e was eventually deserted by his own men and in the end, little mourned.

Dan Jones

#63. ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#64. Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#65. Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl.
"Underground," he said. "My favorite place."
Underground was not Jason's favorite place.

Rick Riordan

#66. Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.

Dennis Miller

#67. A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

Aristotle.

#68. His bark is worse than his bite.

George Herbert

#69. Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

John Denham

#70. My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

Booker T. Washington

#71. I hope his sword is quicker than his wits. The day may come that Tommen has some need of it.

George R R Martin

#72. Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Myrtle Reed

#73. But the Christian with the submissive mind does not expect others to serve him; he serves others. He considers the good of others to be more important than his own plans and desires.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#74. Jay Leno's the only guy on earth who could have a bobble head made of him that would bobble less than his actual head.

Frank Caliendo

#75. God always exalts His words, He placed it higher than His name

Sunday Adelaja

#76. Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.

Lewis Carroll

#77. The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return. More troubling to him than his

Hanya Yanagihara

#79. He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy.

Bertolt Brecht

#80. What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.

Inazo Nitobe

#81. On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

Jose Rizal

#82. When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Marco Beltrami

#83. The presence of a friend who is far away can sometimes feel denser than his physical presence in a room.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#84. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

Miguel De Cervantes

#85. We're not really dating per se,' Leigh said. Nate grinned. 'I wouldn't be so sure about that, pretty lady. I know my brother's tastes and you definitely have the main ingredients. His eyes ate more than his mouth at dinner.

Destiny Booze

#86. Well I ain't Dr. Phil, but I'm smart," she said.
"And your shoes are cuter than his," I said, trying to sound at least semi-normal.
"Yeah they remind me of Dorothy's ruby slippers, only mine are wedges 'cause I'm more fashion conscious than she was.

P.C. Cast

#87. My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

Justin Timberlake

#88. The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#89. The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Leonard Ravenhill

#90. Vaster is Man than his works.

Rockwell Kent

#91. The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

William Feather

#92. Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart.

Augustine Of Hippo

#93. A teacher must be greater than his students; a student must aspire to be greater than his teacher.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#94. A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Raheel Farooq

#95. She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more than himself; that another's suffering could bring him more agony than his own; that someone's life could come before his; that's what she showed him.

Carlos Salinas

#96. And he realized ... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

Nalini Singh

#97. I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Homer

#98. The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Charles Churchill

#99. One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay. He felt insulted by his back, almost as he would have been if one of his children had been dishonest

John Steinbeck

#100. He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer.

Larissa Ione