“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”
Source: Black Blood
“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”
Source: Black Blood
“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams”
Source: Americana
“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
“He's just rather more lively than most fossils.”
“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.”
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
“Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”
“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
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
Source: The Secret History
“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”
Source: "The Unknown", line 16, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 116.
“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.”
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.”
Variant: The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.
Source: Charmed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Pretty Committee
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.”
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)