Greater Quotes - Page 7

• A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Issues, Use

  Source: content.time.com

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• The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It's far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It's easy to get to, there's no trouble with languages.

  Michael Scheuer

  Fighting, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

  Lykke Li

  Dream, Life Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, Here And There, Germany

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Attitude, Team, Character

  Source: screenrant.com

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• A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

  Leslie Jordan

  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Spring, Iran

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.

  John Amaechi

  Alcohol, Drug, Want

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• The public is easily amenable to lies: the more lies there are, the greater the support for war. For instance, when the public was told that Saddam Hussein would attack the U.S., this increased support for the war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Lying, Support

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: "I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System". Interview with Simone Chun, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Creative, Taught

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

  Edward Hirsch

  Character, Attention, Narrative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

  Lori Lansens

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, Boys, Thinking

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

  Aoife O'Donovan

  Believe, Magic, Spirit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your longevity is definitely going to be greater. So, I would tell my 20-year-old self not to over-train.

  Andre Reed

  Self, Years, Work Out

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Men, Garden, Artist

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• Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

  Sumiko Tan

  Love, Dream, Loneliness

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• According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

  David Bornstein

  Hands, Two, Yield

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.

  Francis Frangipane

  Christian, Evil, Hatred

  Francis Frangipane (2013). “The Power Of Covenant Prayer”, p.114, Charisma Media

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• There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over their concerns know the blessing of having few concerns. Only those who have calmed their minds know the misfortune of having many worries.

  Zicheng Hong

  Blessing, Worry, Mind

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• People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.

  Zicheng Hong

  Real, People, Taoism

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• Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Appreciation, Healing, Caring

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• You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need to understand what led to it. In general, if it is our responsibility to condemn terrorist actions after they had happened, we have an even greater responsibility beforehand to make sure they won't happen.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Favour, Needs

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, America

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.

  Emmanuelle Bercot

  Compassion, Understanding, Looks

  "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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