“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.”
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Source: The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”
Source: A Quick Bite
“People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
Act II, scene i. Precedent for Alfred Tennyson's more famous: "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
The Way of the World (1700)
“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”
Source: Firstborn
“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“I'm retiring because there are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”
As quoted in Secrets of Power Persuasion for Salespeople (2003) by Roger Dawson , p. 192
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.”
Variant: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
“God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.”
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”
“When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?”
Poem "D. Sebastião", verses 8-10
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Original: Sem a loucura que é o homem
Mais que a besta sadia,
Cadáver adiado que procria?
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa