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“There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.”
Rachel Simmons
(1974) American writer
Source: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
“There is more in every person's soul than we think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
Robin McKinley
(1952) American fantasy writer
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas
(1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
Andy Rooney
(1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
“You have more balls than a Christmas tree.”
Danielle Steel
(1947) American author of romance novels
“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
David Lynch
(1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
Victor Hugo
(1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Source: Ninety-Three
“I have been no more than a medium, as it were.”
Henri Matisse
(1869–1954) French artist
As quoted in Smithsonian (November 1986)
Posthumous quotes
“A good example is more irritating than a bad one.”
John McAfee
(1945) American computer programmer and businessman
From a presentation in Munich, Jan 1991, in response to an audience question on why his competitors complained about his business practices.