Greater Quotes

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

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.

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.

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.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.

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.

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.

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.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

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.

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

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.

Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

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.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

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.

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.

The workman still is greater than his 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

Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.

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.

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

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.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.