Top 100 Than They Quotes
#1. If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.
Suze Orman
#2. Just goes to show, everyone really does have a story to tell. And most people, at least in my experience, are a little more noble than they think they are.
R.J. Palacio
#3. I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
Bill Ackman
#4. Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.
Terry Goodkind
#5. See things the way they are not worse than they are
Tony Robbins
#6. Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
William Hague
#7. People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.
Michael Schumacher
#8. If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty
Kiran
#9. I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
Karen Salmansohn
#10. I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.
Sarah Addison Allen
#11. If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
Alice Cooper
#12. I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
Lily Cole
#13. People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.
James Baldwin
#14. His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
James Altucher
#16. We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
Terence McKenna
#17. Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#19. Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance.
Rodd Wagner
#20. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
Hans Christian Andersen
#21. Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Don't let anyone tell you things aren't better than they used to be.
Anita Diamant
#24. If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
John W. Gardner
#25. By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin
#26. At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.
Hanif Kureishi
#27. I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.
Keith Ellison
#28. Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
Plato
#30. June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off.
Sue Monk Kidd
#31. But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success.
Alice Koller
#32. People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.
Jim Butcher
#33. Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.
Marcus Sakey
#34. ... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.
Ken Follett
#35. I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.
George W. Bush
#36. Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued;
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#37. When I'm in normal health, I'm a Presbyterian, but just now I feel that even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
Willa Cather
#38. We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.
Evan Osnos
#39. It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' ... there is no end to it.
Barry Unsworth
#40. There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.
Patrick Cockburn
#42. It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.
Lori Wick
#43. Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
Novalis
#44. However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.
Francis Fukuyama
#45. I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.
Theodore Zeldin
#46. You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.
Michael Lewis
#47. I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry Garcia
#48. This country should treat good people better than they do.
Dan Groat
#49. If people only realized what a war goes on in a child's mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do,
Eleanor Roosevelt
#50. Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
Robert Breault
#51. All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.
Jonathan Raymond
#52. Great beauties and stunningly handsome men were accorded virtues: people found them funnier, smarter, more insightful than they actually were.
Brent Weeks
#53. In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.
Tristram Stuart
#54. What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.
Tina Brown
#55. You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama
#56. If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Quentin Crisp
#57. Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
#58. And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.
Thomas Hardy
#59. But you can't give them everything they want - they will always want more than they have.
Marie Lu
#60. Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Carol Plum-Ucci
#61. I like to pick things apart, analyse them and put them back in a better order than they had been in before
Jessica Thompson
#62. That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.
Alexander McCall Smith
#63. Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Joseph Joubert
#64. Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.
Jenna McCarthy
#65. Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
Rose Schneiderman
#66. I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
Pat Conroy
#67. I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.
Nicki Minaj
#68. Solara: What was it like before?
Eli: People had more than they needed, people didn't know what was precious and what wasn't, people threw away things they kill each other for now.
Book Of Eli Movie
#69. I wish my abs were a little bit better. God gave me a great body, but I think my abs could be better than they are.
Bryce Harper
#70. People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
Tom Clancy
#71. Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
#72. So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
Sally Ride
#73. Don't let them get to you. They have no idea what it's like to be you. They have no idea the things you went through. The things you've seen. They can pretend they know. They can dream up the worst-case scenario, but chances are, it doesn't even come close. You are stronger than they are.
Jennifer Rush
#74. One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.
Yitzhak Rabin
#75. Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
George Weinberg
#76. Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
John Piper
#78. She unsettled him; he anchored her. Together, they could be more than they were apart.
Tessa Dare
#79. You've made mistakes, and you have every right to regret them. But don't let them own you, Evie. Don't let them be more important than they are.
Lynn Raye Harris
#80. People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
#81. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop
#83. Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.
Rick Warren
#84. The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.
Stanley Hauerwas
#85. Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
W. Somerset Maugham
#86. Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
Anne Lamott
#87. Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
Jose Rizal
#88. People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
Arthur Helps
#89. Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.
Kathleen Norris
#90. And I think of us, all the people, and the masks we wear, the masks we hide behind and the masks that reveal. I imagine people pretending to be what they truly are, and discovering that other people are so much more and so much less than they imagined themselves to be or present themselves as. And
Neil Gaiman
#91. From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.
Donald Rumsfeld
#92. First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.
David Michie
#93. It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#94. I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.
Honore De Balzac
#95. Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.
Brit Marling
#96. The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.
Bill Dedman
#97. My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
Robin Trower
#98. His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion
Larissa Ione
#99. It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.
Bruce Fogle
#100. Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.
Travis Bradberry
