Greater Quotes - Page 5

• I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

  Saint Augustine

  Stress, Challenges, Needs

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• Great food is similar to great sex. Extra you have greater you want.

  Gael Greene

  Sex, Want, Great Food

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• Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Liberty, Deceiving, States

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on the American tage, or any other in the world. We exhibit at present the novel and astonishing spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favour of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.

  George Washington

  Drama, Government, People

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• If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Hands, Bangs

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• ...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Passion, Views

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “Psychology of Sex: The Biology of Sex—The Sexual Impulse in Youth—Sexual Deviation—The Erotic Symbolisms—Homosexuality—Marriage—The Art of Love”, p.40, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

  Havelock Ellis

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Havelock Ellis (1905). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual selection in man: I. Touch. II. Smell. III. Hearing. IV. Vision”

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• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

  Jay Sekulow

  Men, Evil, Might

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• Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples.
  Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

  Cesar Chavez

  Kings, Challenges, Humanity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.264, Penguin

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• We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissensions. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Dream, Reality, Destiny

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• No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ideas

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.4, Fig

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• Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

  Richard A. Falk

  Doe, Labels, Use

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Weed, Garden, Growing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

  Erol Alkan

  Zero, Musician, Next

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

  Paul Auster

  Distance, Writing, Different

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• There`s no greater risk to the Israeli position in Washington than to make itself a partisan issue.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Issues, Risk, Israeli

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

  Caroline Myss

  People, Matter, Breathe

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Character, Writing, Style

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Projects, Form, Memoir

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.

  Damian Barr

  Memories, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.

  Pedro Noguera

  Real, Taken, Moving

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Children, Men

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• I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

  David Bowie

  Europe, Numbers, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society to get its arms around it is much less. The political clout of the financial class is unbelievable. I'd say the story is darker than when I was there. When I was there it felt like a comedy - and now it feels more like a tragedy.

  Michael Lewis

  Class, Political, Tragedy

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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