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“Somewhere other than the night
She needs to hear I love you.
Somewhere other than the night
She needs to know you care.
She wants to know she's needed,
She needs to be held tight
Somewhere other than the night.”

Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist

Somewhere Other Than the Night, written by Kent Blazy and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, The Chase (1992)

“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.

“Spread out before the pyramid, as far as the eye could see, stretched a frozen ocean of blackness—stinking oily blackness that bubbled and churned. Voider than void, colder than cold, deader than dead.
It is your world.
It is the world we will make for you.”

M. K. Hobson (1969) American writer

Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 8, “Chaos and Disorder” (p. 140)

“Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake, who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.”

Elias Lyman Magoon (1810–1886) American minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 2.

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

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: The Diary of Adam and Eve

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“… it was more like bleeding than crying.”

Stephen King book Cujo

Source: Cujo

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”

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

“Women are fiercer by far than men.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Small victories are better than none.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Work is more fun than fun.”

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

“Some rules are bigger than the universe.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“You are more dangerous than daybreak.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”

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

1836
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“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

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina