Greater Quotes - Page 29

• We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vanity, Self, Support

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• the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

  George Washington

  Business, Triumph, Blogging

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• The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

  Earl Warren

  Communication, Fields, Privacy

  Concurring in the judgment, Lopez v. United States 373 U.S. 427, 1963.

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• While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessing, Past, Faithful

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• To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Forgiveness

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• The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Pain, Giving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Soul, Suffering

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• ...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.

  Rachel Vincent

  Compassion, Honor, Sometimes

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Shift”, p.128, MIRA

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• Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Light, Flames

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• There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Disappointment, Destiny, Discovery

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows”, p.178, Zondervan

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• love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Couple, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 30, 2012

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• What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge?...Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Frowning, Doe

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.646, Macmillan

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• As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Order, Back Love

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

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• A human’s love. I couldn’t wish anything better for him. Animals protect what they know. They protect what they are bound to, but humans…humans have a greater capacity for sacrifice for those who live in their hearts. (Aristotle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Sacrifice, Animal

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Unleash The Night”, p.343, Hachette UK

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• Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

  Roger Ebert

  Records, Sparks, Novelists

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.707, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Cracks, Citizens

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.260

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• There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

  William George Jordan

  Simple, Our World, Escaping

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• Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

  Euripides

  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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• It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

  Donald Miller

  Reality, Thinking, Comfort

  "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality". Book by Donald Miller, July 17, 2003.

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• But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Silence, Solitude

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Kids, Thinking

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• The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Problem, Trouble

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• There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Rescue, Greater Good

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.742, Simon and Schuster

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