Greater Quotes
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Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
Bonaventure -
Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.
Herbert Spencer
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I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
Sean Patrick Flanery -
The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
Bert Hellinger -
I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.
Merrick Garland -
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
Ernest Rutherford -
Whenever you're dealing with fantasy, and you're doing vampires or anything that is not too based in reality, and you try to base it in reality, you have so much of a greater chance of sounding hokey.
Moon Bloodgood
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I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
Anthony Daniels -
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Cesare Beccaria -
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
William Wordsworth -
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
David Wolpe -
The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
Genghis Khan
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks -
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks -
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
William Hazlitt -
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
Arthur Helps -
I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.
Conn Iggulden -
The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
Alfred the Great
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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
Neil McDonald -
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
Petrarch -
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