Greater Quotes - Page 32

• The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Numbers

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• Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

  Isaac Marion

  Dark, Doctors, Age

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

  Epictetus

  Style, Connections, Eloquent

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Couple, House

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.41, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• …In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

  Dan Brown

  Mecca, Ends, Subatomic Particles

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

  Dan Brown

  Birthday, Father, Son

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• And I, the for­mer mys­tic, was think­ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de­ceived You, You chased them from par­adise. When You were dis­pleased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa­vour, You caused the heav­ens to rain down fire and damna­tion. But look at these men whom You have be­trayed, al­low­ing them to be tortured, slaugh­tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be­fore You! They praise Your name!

  Elie Wiesel

  Rain, Men, Thinking

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• If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

  John Green

  Mean, Augustus, Greater Good

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 2012.

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• You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wells, Knows

  "Prophet Motive" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2008.

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• For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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• God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.

  Ted Dekker

  Jesus, Spirit

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• There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dying Alone, Dying, Misfortunes

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• The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sorrow, Philosopher, Pleasure

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

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• But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

  Stanley Milgram

  Survival, Culture, Action

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Breakup, Dream, Real

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Laughter, Humanity, Survival

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• I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

  Steig Larsson

  Father, Appreciate, Ungrateful

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• There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Pride

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.169, Bibliolis Books

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Fun, Games

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• You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

  Cassandra Clare

  Causes, Life Is, Magnus Bane

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• You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Baby, Sadness, Joy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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• when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

  Taylor Swift

  Football, Team, Believe

  Taylor Swift (2011). “Taylor Swift (Songbook): Guitar Play-Along”, p.25, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Swimming, Men, Past

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Yield, Boss, Attention

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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