Stronger than pain quotes (page 377) | Quotes of famous people

“At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20.”

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) Italian neurologist

Source: Quoted in Associated Press obituary http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324234/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UO09q6w1fTp

“We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.”

Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“It is always wise to look ahead – but difficult to look further than you can see.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Appears in Churchill By Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs , p. 576 (“Appendix I : Red Herrings”) : ISBN 1586489577 , with the following explanatory note ; "Reported by the usually reliable Graham Cawthorne, but not in Hansard; possibly an aside to a colleague, however"
Disputed

“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”

Nigel Slater (1958) English food writer, journalist and broadcaster

The Guardian, London, Not roquette science, 2005-10-29, 2010-05-20 http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/houseandgarden/0,,1602953,00.html,

“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist

The Salt-Cellars http://books.google.com/books?id=CmAUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+needs+more+skill+than+I+can+tell+To+play+the+second+fiddle+well%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage (1885)

“Frankly, I could carve a better opposition party out of a banana than the Tories.”

Peter Hitchens (1951) author, journalist

2009-05-14
Question Time
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/14/peter-hitchens-interview

“In our proposed budget, we spend more money on education than ever before.”

Larry Hogan (1956) American politician

" State of the State Address: A New Direction for Maryland http://governor.maryland.gov/2015/02/04/state-of-the-state-address/" (4 February 2015)

“I see an entrepreneur as the chief designer of a business that works better than any other.”

Michael E. Gerber (1936) American business writer

‘A Conversation with Michael Gerber’, from an interview posted on Businessweek.com website, 24 March 2008

“We Need to be ‘WE’ rather than ‘I” and that’s how we can bring change.”

Prito Reza (1984) Photographer

“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”

Abraham Isaac Kook book Orot

Orot Hatchiah 33.
Orot

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”

Henri Bergson book Creative Evolution

Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.

“No human is more intelligent than the other…just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.”

Siddharth Katragadda (1972) Indian writer

page 7
Dark Rooms (2002)

“Southwestern Hispanos… have long said that the only thing smarter than a coyote is God.”

Dan Flores (1948) American historian

p, 125
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016)

“There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”

Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124.

“That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.”

David Hume book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

§ 4.8
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book II, Ch. 12
Attributed

“To be unknown but loved by just one is better than being known by many but loved by none.”

Lupe Fiasco (1982) rapper

Rules 2 Rule

“I also believe there is nothing more surreal and nothing more abstract than reality.”

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter

from an interview, 1955; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 38
1945 - 1964

“For easier 'tis to learn and recollect
What moves derision than what claims respect.”

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

Book II, epistle i, p. 160
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles

“Let’s try and create scenes that are about something… About something deeper than this ashtray.”

Martin de Maat (1949–2001) American theatre director

As quoted in "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis (2 March 2001) http://www.performink.com/Archives/obituaries/DemaatMartin3201.html

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