Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Live your life to its fullest potential and don’t really care too much about what other people think of you.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn’t much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned.
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.
You never know how much time you have left.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
The idea is not to restructure the economy as much as to seize the opportunities available that we didn’t address before.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What’s appealing is that you don’t have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Openness, respect, integrity – these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
I am not lost. I am very much alive.
As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
As much as one would like to think that what China does doesn’t matter, the reality is that when China sneezes at crypto, the rest of the world catches the cold.
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer.
I don’t think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That’s not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
The journey matters as much as the goal.
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
