Greater Quotes - Page 30

• I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Order, Judging

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• There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Kindness, Empathy

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Retirement, Taken, Eye

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• And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

  James Lee Burke

  People, Waste, Clock

  James Lee Burke (2010). “Heaven's Prisoners”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• ...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Anxiety, Failing, Fear Of Death

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Emotional

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.127, Penguin

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• The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You

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• She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

  John Crowley

  Dream, Doors, Wings

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• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Future, Harvest Time, Years

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

  Jane Austen

  Justice, Can Do, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.336

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• Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Compassion, Perspective

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• One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

  Marquis de Sade

  Desire, Violence, Surrender

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

  Victor Hugo

  Winning, Voice, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Pain, Fall

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Inferno”, p.75, Penguin

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• No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

  Zadie Smith

  Suicide, Beach, Ocean

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

  Patricia Briggs

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Animal, People, Accepting

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• I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Fascination, Emptiness

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• Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

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• Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Silly, Animal

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• Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Artist, Creative, Obscurity

  "The real cost of free: a response" by Helienne Lindvall, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2010.

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• We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

  Michael Polanyi

  Pieces, Rewards, Accepting

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• Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Peace, Men, Thinking

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