“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Emile Zola book Au Bonheur des Dames
Source: The Ladies' Paradise
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
Source: Homeland and Other Stories
“Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
“I won’t be satisfied with anything less than everything”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: A Night Like This
“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
Anthony Swofford book Jarhead
Source: Jarhead
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 12
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”
John Irving book The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp, ch. 5
“An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.”
Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955) Italian general
Quoted in "The Suez Canal in World Affairs" - Page 79 - by Hugh Joseph Schonfield - 1952
“There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad.”
Greg Giraldo (1965–2010) American comedian
Midlife Vices (2009)
“Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?”
cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher
De rerum originatione radicali (1697); reprinted in God. Guil. Leibnitii Opera philosophica quae exstant latina, gallica, germanica omniaː 1 http://books.google.gr/books?id=Huv3Q0IimL0C&vq= (1840), p. 148 <br class="br">Cf. Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (1929)ː "Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage."
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) American writer
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 45
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
Aldous Huxley book Point Counter Point
Source: Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 1
“Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.”
Gabriel Biel (1418–1495) German canon regular and scholar
Lectio 53.
Expositio Canonis Missae
“Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.”
George Lucas (1944) American film producer
"Lucas in a D.C. daze" in Variety (20 February 2006) http://variety.com/2006/scene/vpage/lucas-in-a-d-c-daze-1117938566/ <br class="br">2000s
“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
1880s, "The Study of Administration," 1887
“The task counts more than the one who does it.”
Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 2
“We know more than we need to know.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)