A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.
In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water.
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.
It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.
I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
I still remember, when I got my fees for 'Barsaat,' I ran into a car showroom and purchased a Maruti Esteem. I treasure that car more than anything else in the world.
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
I started in '07, and I remember, at that point, nobody was trying to hear from me because I was a young rapper. I'd be saying stuff better than some of what the hottest rappers were saying back then, but nobody was trying to hear from me.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
