If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
I’d like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.
It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.
At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you’ll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It’s so much more rewarding.
I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much to their dismay, I became a stand-up comedian.
I get way too much happiness from good food.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
I have no regrets. I don’t believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard… and achieving as much as I could.
It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
People think, ‘Jack, you do too much.’
He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
