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- I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every…
- When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to…
- When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a…
- When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,…
- When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider…
- If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice…
- My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect…
- With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
- Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we…
- God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
- We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
- All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
- The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries…
- Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
- Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
- We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
- It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
- Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
- I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers…
- People are more than just the way they look.
- If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a…
- Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never…
- You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
- Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
- I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle