Top 25 Greater Quotes of 325 - Page 9

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Affinity, Knows, Greater

Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Loss, Crime, Greater

Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.83, Lackington, Allen

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Thomas Paine

Tyranny, Greater

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

Sydney J. Harris

Atrocities, Warfare, Greater

Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!

Steve Camp

Jesus, Savior, Greater

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Sharon Salzberg

Ease, Care, Greater

FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 17, 2011

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

Rumi

Objects, Greater, No Love

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

Petrarch

Effort, Greater

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.

Pete Carroll

Play, Challenges, Greater

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Michel de Montaigne

Imagination, Effects, Greater

Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1305, Xist Publishing

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

Karen Marie Moning

Tyranny, Greater Good, Chameleon

Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.579, Dell

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

Generosity, Stewardship, Greater

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

John Oliver

Sports, Greater, Anesthetics

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

John Jacob Abel

Discovery, Way, Greater

John Jacob Abel, Otto Folin, Theobald Smith (1915). “Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator”

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Inspirational, Leadership, Greater

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

Alaska, Greater, Destroyed

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

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

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

Jane Austen

Justice, Can Do, Greater

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

Your heart is greater than your wounds.

Henri Nouwen

Heart, Greater, Wounds

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Mind, Forget, Greater

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Francis Bacon

Inspirational, Wells, Greater

Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.332

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Don DeLillo

White Noise, Primitive, Greater

Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

Trust is greater than love.

David O. McKay

Greater

I was 23. When you're 23, your concern is not for the greater good of humanity. I didn't feel like I was unleashing an evil on society or anything. At the time, that's what I was into, and I did a movie about it.

Dave Chappelle

Evil, Humanity, Greater Good

Source: film.avclub.com