“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
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“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.”
Charles Morgan (1894–1958) British writer
“The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: The Red Dice
“Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
According to The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 91 ISBN 0312340044 , the cover of a trade magazine once credited this observation to Churchill, but it dates back well into the nineteenth century, and has been variously attributed to Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, w:Theodore Roosevelt, w:Thomas Jefferson, w:Will Rogers and Lord Palmerston, among others. One documented use in Social Silhouettes (1906) by George William Erskine Russell, p. 218 wherein a character attributes the saying to Lord Palmerston.
Misattributed
“… beds last on an average much longer than marriages…”
Michel Houellebecq book Whatever
Source: Whatever
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Journal entry (14 May 1915), p. 48
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
“The name of a person you love is more than language.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.”
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
Frank Zappa book The Real Frank Zappa Book
Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech at Aylesbury, Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association (21 September 1865), cited in Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Collected from his Writings and Speeches (1881), p. 356
1860s
“Scary with you is better than scary without you”
Tamora Pierce book Emperor Mage
Source: Emperor Mage
“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“She attracted him more than he liked.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
Murasaki Shikibu book The Tale of Genji
Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 1: Kiritsubo
“Don't hope more than you're willing to work.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
“Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.”
Suheir Hammad (1973) American poet, author, performer, and political activist
Source: Zaatardiva