“That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.” ShouldTwoScienceGreaterOffersElementsFundamentalsInherentImprobability Book:The Physical Basis of Mind: A Symposium Source: The Physical Basis of Mind: A Symposium
“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.” GivingDoeSoulSelfFactsAmericaPurposeCommunityPoorGreaterComfortOffersConceptsLonelyConstitutionHungryClothingsShelterHomelessOrdinances Author:Pope Paul VI
“Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.” InspirationalGreaterNiceOffers Author:Jon Jones
“The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.” ReasonPovertyDemocracyGreaterMankindOffersProsperityAristocracyDespotism Author:Bill Vaughan
“What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.” ShouldFirstsFeelingsDesireUnderstandingClearGreaterOffersPerceptionValuableRhythmFasterMotiveProseVersesNew ExperiencesEvaluationOrganised Author:Yvor Winters
“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]” EducationTeachGreaterYouthOffersRepublic Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.” PeopleDealsNumbersGreaterOffersPaidMovieRubbishCheques Author:Glenda Jackson
“What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.” GivingGreaterOffersWho You Are Author:Bob Burg
“I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.” ThinkingYearsRealFriendshipGreaterOffersAbsenceDespiteRecognitionPassagesJoyfulReal FriendsAcquaintanceOld FriendsOld FriendshipNew AcquaintancesOld Relationship Author:Abigail McCarthy
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.” IfsLifeChildrenI CanFacesFormGreaterVictoryCircumstancesOffersAspectAppreciateLike MeLiftsHardshipConquestAnnoyanceHelpers Book:A New England girlhood Source: A New England girlhood
“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.” MenMadeSpaceCitiesQualityKnownGreaterSkyOffersMachinesWestWideQuantityUncertainFrontiersLaboratorySkyscraperOpen SpacesWild WestWide Open Spaces Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Dallas Willard warns us too of the "cost of non-discipleship." We may be able to live with some pain, but when our whole self becomes more and more rotten, the cost is far greater than dealing with the problem as soon as possible. This is why I think following Jesus, though challenging, is much easier than following anything else. The world has nothing better to offer me. Jesus has come to right my wrongs and to make me refreshingly new.” ThinkingWorldMaySelfWholeProblemAblePainJesusChallengesGreaterEasierCostOffersFollowingDiscipleshipRottenFollowing JesusDallas Author:Dallas Willard