Greater Quotes - Page 15

• A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

  David Mamet

  Gay, Acceptance, Conservative

  "David Mamet On ‘The Colbert Report’: ‘Theater Is Always Dying,’ ‘Directors Are Mostly Useless’", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Historical Novels, Years

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• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Garden, Sowing, Soil

  Orison Swett Marden (1916). “Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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• The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspiring, Fundraising, Giving

  Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

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• Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Father, Stills, Our Father

  "Professor of Swing". Academy of Achievment Interview, www.achievement.org. January 8, 1991.

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• Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Giving, Aristocracy

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• It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

  Rollo May

  Freedom, Moving, Journey

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Lying, Autism, Parent

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Loyalty, Heart, Men

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• Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Humility, Men, Self

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• In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Miracle, Monsters, Humans

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• Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self, Wings, Promise

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• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  James McGreevey

  Moving, Gay, Thinking

  "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Reading, Animal

  Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report"

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Blessing, Giving

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Wasted Time, Harm

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• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Moliere

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

  Moliere

  Reform, Literature, World

  "The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover". Comedy by Moliere, 1666.

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• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Miracle, Monsters, World

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.295

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• I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

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• I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

  Michael Moore

  Sacrifice, Giving, Enormous

  "My New Year’s Resolutions" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Loss, Doubt, Pakistan

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