“What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?”
Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
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“I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.”
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.”
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 23, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 448)
“It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Morgase Trakand
(15 September 1992)
“Consequence, you'll see, will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
“There's more to life than books you know, but not much more”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
from the song "Handsome Devil"
From songs
“Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"Shine, Perishing Republic" (1939)
“I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.”
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
As quoted in The Reader's Digest (October 1994), p. 185
“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“A weak enemy in the fortress is more fearsome than the strongest outside.”
Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (1746–1803) German writer
Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als der stärkste von außen.
Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands (1787).
“Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.”
Walter Terence Stace (1886–1967) British civil servant, educator and philosopher.
p. 20.
“War is never anything less than accelerated technological change.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 102
“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
Charles Buxton (1823–1871) English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 25.
“Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.”
Variant translation (by Paul Roche): For nothing is like the sorrow or supersedes the sadness of losing your native land.
Source: Medea (431 BC), Line 653 (translated by David Kovacs: Perseus Digital Library)
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Act II, sc. iv.
The Duenna (1775)
“Perry Mason: Maybe my writers are better than yours.”
Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
The Value of Science (1955)
“(The Facebook campaign) "is a bit of a feel-good, but it is better than nothing"”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Quoted in the US Wired Magazine (April 2007) http://archive.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/10/myanmarfacebook <br class="br">Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)
“Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.”
François-Bernard Mâche (1935) French composer
Music, Myth and Nature, p. 21