Than Quotes
17300 Than quotes by 8648 unique authors
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
— David Attenborough
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
— Margaret Atwood
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no…
— John James Audubon
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Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
— Frank Auerbach
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Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some…
— Saint Augustine
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
— Kathy Acker
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are…
— Saint Augustine
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
— Marcus Aurelius
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The…
— Marcus Aurelius
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