Quotes of: More-than-anything Keyword

Without realizing what she was doing and more on an impulse than anything else, she leaned forward and kissed him. It was a simple, yet firm kiss and she pulled back after only a moment. But it sent a thrill through her. He leaned down for another. B...

Robert Fanney

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; shou...

Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop l...

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by showing a man quite quietly that he is wrong, and that what he says and thinks is incorrect — a process which occurs in every dialectical victory �...

The Art of Always Being Right

There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysteriou...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will – but more often than not I am face-to-face with a stranger, a companion to something I recognise as mysel...

A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

Vaporized by the sun! Wasn't that what the universe had in store for all of us? There would come a day when the sun exploded like a red balloon, and everyone on earth would be reduced in less than a camera flash to carbon. Didn't Genesis say as much?...

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more on fiction than he does on food; he'll be more int...

Mikita Brottman

We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It takes no courage to say, "I hate you" but it takes a gre...

Donna Lynn Hope

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Five Quarters of the Orange

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

The Gift

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

The Hollow Hills

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

Brian Ferneyhough

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers, Volume Two

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

Killosophy

There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.

Manon Lescaut

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

Melmoth the Wanderer

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

The Last Enchantments

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

Les Misérables

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

Look into the stillness

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2