“My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.”
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
As quoted without citation in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24
Attributed
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
“There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.”
Source: Life and Fate
“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
The New Statesman (1933-02-25)
“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”
Source: The Best of Me
“Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking”
Source: The Talented Mr. Ripley
“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (1910) http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/anarchism.html
Context: Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. The widespread mental indolence, so prevalent in society, proves this to be only too true. Rather than to go to the bottom of any given idea, to examine into it's origing and meaning, most people will either condem it alltogether, or rely on some superficial or perjudicial definition of non-essentials
“…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”
Source: The Diviners
“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
“A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”
“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
