Greater Quotes - Page 23

• The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Discovery, Four

  Ted Dekker (2006). “Showdown”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

  Sheri L. Dew

  Pain, Gone, Done

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• It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?

  George Q. Cannon

  Heart, Giving, Envy

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• Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.

  David McCullough

  Mean, America, Ignorant

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 22, 2012

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• Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.

  Alberto Manguel

  Art, Book, Reading

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada

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• Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

  Ally Carter

  Ice Cream, Two, Numbers

  "I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Spiritual, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.33, New World Library

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• Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sisterhood, World, Form

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• A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.81, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Numbers, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

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• If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Growing Up, Heart

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• The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Use, Truth Is

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• M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Political Opinions, Passionate

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.461, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Money, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

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• Trust is greater than love.

  David O. McKay

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• To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

  Hermann Hesse

  Patience, Revenge, People

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• What greater gift than the love of a cat.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me the same response, even if there's a greater one that you grant another man. No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Expression, Roots

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• The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Ambition, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2800, Delphi Classics

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• It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

  Steven Brust

  Men, Ideas, Evil

  Steven Brust (2010). “Sethra Lavode”, p.324, Macmillan

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• Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Smile

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• The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Influence, Force

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• Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Believe, Heart

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