“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
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“Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) American artist
“AZRAEL:
No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater… than central air.”
Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director
“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
al'Lan Mandragoran
Variant: There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."
Source: The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)
“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
"Why I Am So Wise", 6
Ecce Homo (1888)
“After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work”
Beryl Markham book West with the Night
Source: West with the Night
“We must consult our means rather than our wishes.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
“The creative person should have no other biography than his works.”
B. Traven (1890–1969) German novelist
Source: Quoted by Red Marriott in " Traven, B. – An Anti-Biography https://libcom.org/library/b-traven-anti-biography" (2007)<br><br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - B. Traven / Quotes
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”
Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Empire
Source: Foundation and Empire
“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Crimson Crown
“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”
Rosemary Sutcliff book The Eagle of the Ninth
Source: The Eagle of the Ninth
“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52