Quotes

Michael Mullen photo

“Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.”

Michael Mullen (1946) U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

To Army War College Graduates, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 7 June 2008 http://www.jcs.mil/chairman/speeches/07JUN08_ArmyWarCollege_Commencement.html, CJCS.

M. K. Hobson photo
Mark Twain photo

“It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: The Diary of Adam and Eve

Stephen King photo

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

Source: Doctor Sleep

Stephen King photo

“… it was more like bleeding than crying.”

Source: Cujo

Jennifer Donnelly photo

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

Source: A Northern Light

Anita Loos photo

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”

Anita Loos (1889–1981) Actress, novelist, screenwriter, TV producer
Cassandra Clare photo

“Women are fiercer by far than men.”

Source: Lady Midnight

Neal Shusterman photo

“Small victories are bet­ter than none.”

Source: Unwind

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”

Source: Strange Angels

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

Source: This Side of Paradise

Noel Coward photo

“Work is more fun than fun.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Richelle Mead photo

“Some rules are bigger than the universe.”

Source: Last Sacrifice

Holly Black photo

“You are more dangerous than daybreak.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1836
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

Anne Frank photo

“Paper is more patient than man.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Variant: Because paper has more patience than people.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Leo Tolstoy photo

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

Source: Anna Karenina

Martin Heidegger photo

“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”

Introduction
Being and Time (1927)