Greater Quotes - Page 34

• ...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

  Jack Gantos

  Being Yourself, Self Love, Parent

  Jack Gantos (2011). “Dead End in Norvelt”, p.310, Macmillan

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• Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.

  Cesar Millan

  Years, Goal, Wife

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• The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Angel, Aunt

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• What we need today are not more laws to govern believers. What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us!

  Joseph Prince

  Appreciation, Jesus, Law

  Joseph Prince (2011). “Unmerited Favor: Your Supernatural Advantage for a Successful Life”, p.96, Charisma Media

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Self, Expression

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• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.

  David Clement-Davies

  Pain, Mirrors, Agony

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• 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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