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“Everyone is more than one thing,” said Kieran. “We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

Source: Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”

Jerome Lawrence Inherit the Wind

Source: Inherit the Wind

“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”

Lisa See book Dreams of Joy

Source: Dreams of Joy

“Proposition 18. The earth is to the moon in a ratio greater than that which 1259712 has to 79507, but less than that which 216000 has to 6859.”

Aristarchus of Samos ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician

p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)
Variant: Proposition 17. The diameter of the earth is to the diameter of the moon in a ratio greater than that which 108 has to 43, but less than that which 60 has to 19.

“A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Annie Besant the Life and Teachings of Muhammad (the Prophet of Islam) http://www.scribd.com/doc/178209678/Annie-Besant-the-Life-and-Teachings-of-Muhammad-the-Prophet-of-Islam

“It is many years since I have wielded a weapon larger than a pen, borne anything weightier than a difficult problem in philosophy.”

Michael Moorcock book The Runestaff

Book 3, Chapter 5 “Five Heroes and a Heroine” (p. 467)
The Runestaff (1969)

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. … They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 1

“It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.”

John W. Gardner (1912–2002) American politician

Quoted in "Self Renewal" (1964).

“Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" The Cow in Apple-Time http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cow-in-apple-time-the/" <br class="br">1910s

“By the way, a shorter man earns less than a tall man. The blonde earns more than a brunette. They are different, and it should not be equalised. That’s all.”

Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician

Source: Good Morning Britain, 08 March 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NEqlfWSOrQ

“If one aims to judge political movements, their deeds are far more important than their speeches, which are often masking rather than revealing.”

Mario Bunge (1919) Argentine philosopher and physicist

Emergence and Convergence (2003), p. 424.
2000s

“Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.”

David Brewster (1781–1868) British astronomer and mathematician

More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856), p. 207

“To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

"Free Hope" p. 131.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Context: Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901
Journals 1889-1949