Quotes

Jay Samit photo

“Most people are more afraid of the unknown than death.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

“Cowardice is a far better survival trait than heroism.”

Jim C. Hines (1974) American writer

Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin War (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 254)

Robert Silverberg photo

“Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.”

Source: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 7 (p. 25)

Mateo Alemán photo

“An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.”

Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)

Agatha Christie photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo

“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!”

Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure

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

Adam Schiff photo

“There is nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there is no truth.”

Adam Schiff (1960) American politician

Open Letter to the Committee Hearing Re: FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers

Tanith Lee photo

“Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.”

Book One, Part III “The Crimson Palace”, Chapter 6 (p. 155)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

Josephs Quartzy photo

“you try and find than waiting,
you are a hero”

Josephs Quartzy (1999) Tanzanian actor

Source: Sweetest song I know

Prevale photo

“There is no better place than in the arms of the one you love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

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.”

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Kalam (2018)

Ron English photo

“Life is fair. Everyone gets more than they deserve.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Ron English photo

“Everyone matters more than you except to yourself.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

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

Franz Kafka photo
Wilfred Thesiger photo

“To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter.”

Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003) British explorer

Source: Desert, Marsh and Mountain (1979), p. 122.