“Most people are more afraid of the unknown than death.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Most people are more afraid of the unknown than death.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Cowardice is a far better survival trait than heroism.”
Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin War (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 254)
“Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.”
Source: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 7 (p. 25)
“An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.”
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“Evil is not something superhuman, - it's something less than human.”
“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”
Source: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)
“This one's shattered worse than third-rate rice!”
Original: (pt) Esse aí tá mais quebrado que arroz de terceira!
Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
quote when police captured a criminal who was lynched by the local population
“There is nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there is no truth.”
Open Letter to the Committee Hearing Re: FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers
“Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.”
Book One, Part III “The Crimson Palace”, Chapter 6 (p. 155)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
“you try and find than waiting,
you are a hero”
Source: Sweetest song I know
“There is no better place than in the arms of the one you love.”
Original: Non c'è posto migliore che tra le braccia di chi ami.
Source: prevale.net
“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”
Kalam (2018)
“Life is fair. Everyone gets more than they deserve.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Everyone matters more than you except to yourself.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
The Bonhoeffer Reader https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bonhoeffer_Reader/CNZgAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA766, p. 766
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity
“To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter.”
Source: Desert, Marsh and Mountain (1979), p. 122.