Than Quotes (page 505)

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• world
• conscious
• dreaded

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. Clive Barker

• free
• comforting
• instincts

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. Tom Robbins

• girl
• girls
• boys

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys. J. M. Barrie

• giving
• hand
• personal

I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him. Sue Monk Kidd

• study
• political
• responsibility

Where recyling takes place only in response to political pressures and exhortations, it need not meet the test of being incrementally worth its incremental costs. Accordingly, studies of government-imposed recycling programs in the United States have shown that what they salvage is usually worth less than the cost of salvaging it. Thomas Sowell

• sweat
• garden
• manly

Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people in the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you’re all to yourself that way, you’re really proud of yourself for a little while; you get to thinking things through, alone. Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody... Ray Bradbury

• him
• reading
• jokes

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read. Meister Eckhart

• commitment
• demanded
• commit

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment. Mikhail Lermontov

• small
• world
• holds

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• nowadays
• implied
• usefulness

P.C." is the newspeak that the West uses nowadays to imply, allude to, or insinuate rather than to affirm or maintain. Joseph Ratzinger

• good
• bear
• goods

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear Solon

• personal
• end
• friends

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real. Chuck Palahniuk

• surprise
• alone
• french

as the "people of the centre" in everysense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:--they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French. Friedrich Nietzsche

• good
• philosophical
• wishes

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. Friedrich Nietzsche

• greatness
• common
• style

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style. Martin Amis