Greater Quotes - Page 27

• Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Opposites, Needs

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• Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Temptation, Lust

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman, Book 4)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, December 1990 – July 1991.

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• They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Gnats, Cain

  "The Sandman: Season of Mists. #22, episode 1". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Kindness, Limits

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.62, Westminster John Knox Press

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• . . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Loneliness, Heart

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• Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

  Homer

  Kings, Hate, Men

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• A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

  R. A. Salvatore

  Memories, Years, Heartbeat

  R.A. Salvatore (2008). “The Pirate King: Transitions”, p.49, Wizards of the Coast

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• ... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Happy Times, Misery

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• Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

  Giordano Bruno

  Fear, Atheism, Sentences

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

  Frederick Buechner

  Miracle, Plus, Thousand

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

  Sebastian Barry

  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Doe, Body

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• No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1343, Delphi Classics

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• Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

  Angela Carter

  Anticipation, Pleasure

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.472, OUP Oxford

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• Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Book, Perception

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• Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

  Sloane Crosley

  Karma, Natural Instinct, Helping

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.79, Portobello Books

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• But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed

  John Green

  Real, Believe, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

  Homer

  Husband, Grief, Home

  Homer, Stanley Lombardo (2000). “Odyssey”, p.41, Hackett Publishing

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• It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Joy, Understanding

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

  Samuel Butler

  People, Dying, Done

  TheWay of All Flesh ch. 24 (1903)

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• I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

  Julia Quinn

  Lying, Reading, Imagine

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• What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Bored, Together, Privilege

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2012). “American Wife”, p.349, Random House

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• But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Doe, World, Turns

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.187, Hachette UK

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