Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
People are smarter than you might think.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
I like vintage stores - all over the world. I have a little collection of my favorite stores here and there. Other than that, I love online shopping.
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
'Warcraft' has always had a far higher percentage of women players than a lot of other games. It has always been a very welcoming environment for women.
When you fit meditation into your day, you bring much more of yourself to all the other hours of your day - you bring your whole self rather than your stressed-out self.
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
When I wake up in the morning, I don't think of myself as being better than anybody else. I think of myself as a good hitter.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.
There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
