Greater Quotes
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.
There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different
Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.
To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!
I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.
I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.
If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.