The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
‐‐ Shane Claiborne
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
‐‐ David Herbert Donald
The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.
‐‐ Nick McDonell
The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
‐‐ Daniel Snyder
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson
The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
‐‐ Gloria Allred
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
‐‐ Jane Austen
The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!
‐‐ Cindy Margolis
The more I learned about real pirates, the more exciting they seemed to me. They appeared to be even more dramatic than pirates of the movies or TV shows.
‐‐ Robert Kurson
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard
The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
‐‐ Jacob Riis
The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.
‐‐ Eric Bana
The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha
The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.
‐‐ Edie Campbell
The more I paint the more I like everything.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat
The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.
‐‐ Ricky Williams
The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario
The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
‐‐ J. C. Watts
The more I practice the luckier I get.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
‐‐ Damien Rice
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
‐‐ Gail Porter
The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.
‐‐ Renee Olstead
The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.
‐‐ Cliff Richard
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
‐‐ Linton Kwesi Johnson
The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.
‐‐ Dasha Zhukova
The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.
‐‐ Dwight Schultz
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst
The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette
The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.
‐‐ John Muir
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
‐‐ Madame de Stael
The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.
‐‐ Mike Mignola
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
‐‐ Alphonse de Lamartine
The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor
The more I see the less I know for sure.
‐‐ John Lennon
The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams
The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.
‐‐ Reza Aslan
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
‐‐ Richard Burton
The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh
The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.
‐‐ Joseph Prince
The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
‐‐ Jason Mraz
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.
‐‐ Henry Eyring
The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.
‐‐ Mark V. Hurd
The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.
‐‐ Angela Ruggiero