Greater Quotes - Page 24

• One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

  Salvador Dali

  Dream, Reality, One Day

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• Success always demands a greater effort.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Effort, Demand

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Second World War: Their finest hour”

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• Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Branches, Claims

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.1, Routledge

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• He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

  Brigham Young

  Fool, Rage, Paradox

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• It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Children, Pain

  "The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection".

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• The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Winning, Years

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.11, Melville House

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• I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Evil

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• The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Power, Accomplishment, Purpose

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• There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Kindness, Men, Irritation

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

  Walt Whitman

  Self, Soul, Body

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

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• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Crush, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

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• The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Life, Tragedy

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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• Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

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• Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

  Nicholas Evans

  Truth, Pain, Heart

  Nicholas Evans (1996). “The Horse Whisperer”, Thorndike Pr

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• Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.

  John Stuart Mill

  Knowing, Degrees, Faults

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• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  Ann Druyan

  Might, Capacity, Humans

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• When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Stupid, Past

  "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". Book by Michael Chabon, 1988.

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• I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

  Alfred de Vigny

  Stupid, Order, Understanding

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• Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Couple, Two

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• Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Civilization

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2197, Simon and Schuster

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• Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life.

  Susane Colasanti

  Night, People, Together

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.100, Penguin

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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wisdom, Patience, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4236, Delphi Classics

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• I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

  Jean Vanier

  Real, Believe, Understanding

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• There is no greater glory than to die for love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Glory, Cholera

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

  Lionel Shriver

  Hero, Responsibility, Heart

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