Top 100 The More Quotes
#1. The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
Allan Kardec
#2. I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
Charles De Lint
#3. When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
Harold S. Kushner
#4. He found that worry was a completely renewable resource. The more he had, the more he got.
Alex London
#5. I don't think there's any limit on True Blue Love. The more the merrier, I say," said Harry.
Patricia Martin
#6. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#7. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
Don DeLillo
#8. The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
#9. There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.
Shawn Ryan
#10. The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.
Ovid
#11. Never look back at your past, everything happens for a reason, keep your head up and look forward. the more you look back the more beautiful things you will miss in life.
Brandon Smith
#12. Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
Tom Robbins
#13. Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.
Cesare Beccaria
#14. The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign
#15. The deeper we go, the fewer the lights, the dirtier the buildings, the stranger the animals, but the more brilliant the graffiti.
Pierce Brown
#16. I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
Jesse Eisenberg
#17. The older I got, the more I was of the opinion that love can be experienced in many different ways. There is no right or wrong way to love, only in how it is expressed.
Patricia Cornwell
#18. I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.
Fritz Sauckel
#19. The more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe
Jess Walter
#20. Great passion governs itself;
reason in the background, given to servitude.
The greater your passion,
the more you should strive to tame it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.
Rick Santorum
#22. People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.
Brad Delson
#23. The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.
Miuccia Prada
#24. They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.
Karen Marie Moning
#25. Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant
#26. The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.
Queen Latifah
#27. The deeper we dig into our field the more we know about its details
Sunday Adelaja
#28. I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
Dennis Rodman
#29. The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#30. God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
Edward McKendree Bounds
#31. Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.
Tom Vanderbilt
#32. There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#33. Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
Ron Wyden
#35. The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself
Thea Astley
#36. THE WISER I GET....
THE LESS I SPEAK,
THE MORE I THINK
AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME"
~QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#37. Many breeders, breed clubs and apparently the AKC believe that the less you talk about a problem, the more likely it is to go away.
George A. Padgett
#38. The more I teach, the more I realize that I know nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.
Hyman Minsky
#40. The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
Henry Morton Stanley
#41. When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#43. The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock
#44. I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
Francis Bacon
#45. Researchers have proved that the more creative a person is, the more visually they think. The creative develop ways to block out verbal thoughts. They visualise ideas. They form mental pictures of their subject or problem. This enables them to see their idea.
Rod Judkins
#46. I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
Hugh Jackman
#47. When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
Dan Hill
#48. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.
Milan Kundera
#49. It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
Rene Descartes
#50. The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Vita Sackville-West
#51. And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.
Michael Bloomberg
#52. We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.
Louis De Montfort
#53. But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes
pg 95
Milan Kundera
#54. Most guys, Madoc, like something different. You know why you want to see me in "nice," skimpy things? Because the more I show, the less I'm hiding. I scare you.
Penelope Douglas
#55. The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Pele
#56. Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#57. As when, O lady mine,
With chiselled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
#58. As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:
~people applaud you incessantly.
~love you more than their parents.
~give you a daily bread.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#59. The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you.
Robert Scoble
#60. The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
Pam Houston
#61. For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in so doing you won't lose yourselves, become unoriginal, what happens is the opposite, by doing this you'll find yourselves. The more you read, the better. The
Karl Ove Knausgard
#62. Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#63. The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.
Paul David Tripp
#64. Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.
Po Bronson
#65. Peace is a place where your heart is free to become the more beautiful you.
Bryant McGill
#66. The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.
Dorothy Dunnett
#67. I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
Mel Brooks
#68. It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
Edward Hoagland
#69. Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.
L. Tom Perry
#70. Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.
Valerie Solanas
#71. It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,
equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.
Rush Limbaugh
#73. Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
Ezra Taft Benson
#74. The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
E. M. Forster
#75. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
Dan Webster
#76. I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.
Don DeLillo
#77. I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
Maya Angelou
#78. Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.
Junsu
#79. If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.
Iman Abdulmajid
#80. If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
Yasmin Mogahed
#81. The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
Calvin Coolidge
#82. I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
Jeri Ryan
#83. The more risks you take, the more rewards you will receive.
Robin S. Sharma
#84. No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.
Joshua Foer
#85. I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.
Melanie Hooyenga
#86. The more man alienates himself from Nature, the more subjective, i.e., supranatural or antinatural, is his view of things, the greater the horror he has of Nature, or at least of those natural objects and processes which displease his imagination, which affect him disagreeably.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#87. Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
Drew Goddard
#88. The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life's earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains.
Molly Friedenfeld
#89. I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and amazement.
Richard Mille
#90. The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
Norbert Wiener
#91. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
George Washington
#92. The greater the sense of powerlessness and the greater lack of authentic will, the more grows either submission or an obsessional desire for satisfaction of one's whims and the insistence on arbitrariness.
Erich Fromm
#94. I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
Scotty McCreery
#95. I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
Neil Diamond
#96. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#97. The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.
Kylie Bisutti
#98. Once the woman decided to get free, she had also decided to stay free... The older Jo =got, the more he understood about the woman he called Ma. The more he understood that sometimes staying free required unimaginable sacrifice.
Yaa Gyasi
#100. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value
Bruce Mau
