Quotes

“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

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“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

Variant: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Source: The Book Thief

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“He's just rather more lively than most fossils.”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children

“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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“Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”

Source: Angels & Demons

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“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

Of Ceremonies and Respect
Essays (1625)
Variant: Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Source: The Essays

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“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”

Edward Thomas (1878–1917) Poet and journalist

Source: "The Unknown", line 16, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 116.

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“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Madonna: 50 Years Of Wit And Wisdom, The Insider http://www.theinsider.com/news/1130430_Madonna_50_Years_Of_Wit_And_Wisdom,

“The Clique…. the only thing harder than getting in is saying goodbye.”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

Variant: The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.
Source: Charmed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Pretty Committee

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“It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1940s
Source: The Real Problem Is in the Hearts of Men http://books.google.com/books?id=AIHgK-p6mhgC&q=%22It+is+easier+to+denature+plutonium+than+it+is+to+denature+the+evil+spirit+of+man%22&pg=PA385#v=onepage, The New York Times Magazine ( June 23, 1946 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60715F63E5C14738DDDAA0A94DE405B8688F1D3)