Quotes with than

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 4180.

  • William James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Seneca It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Terry Eagleton It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Jean Paul It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Don DeLillo It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
    Americana (1989)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Angela Carter It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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