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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker

Sister, Anywhere, Comforting

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

Talk, Able, Loved

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.
Rush Limbaugh

Ignorant, Dependent

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

Food, Enough, Chance

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Him, Worry

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
Deepak Chopra

Important, Nothing, Real

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

War, Death, Pain

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Laugh, Fitting

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever, Question, Less

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Donald Trump

Work, Trying, Balance

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell

Society, Human, Practice

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
Dave Grohl

Love, Someone, Person

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

Wise, Away, Whole

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
Meir Kahane

Time, Revenge, Place

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Often, Less, Act

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

Successful, Feeling, Friendly

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung

Life, Greatest, Worth

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes

Two, Talk, Less

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
Billy Graham

Older, Loving, Guess

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
Niccolo Machiavelli

May, Give, Once

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

War, Makes, Progress

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.
Robert Anthony

Change, Difficult, Suffer

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

Politics, Men, Show

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen King

Good, Bad, Book

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton

Children, Giving, Owe

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.
Hillary Clinton

Thought, Said, Off

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings

Beautiful, Question, Answer

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Loved, Ourselves

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Love, Rich, Sweet

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