Greater Quotes

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

Most people in America don't believe that "God" is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.

What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

The recipe for success . . . customers will get what they want, when they want it . . . you will see more revenue, greater brand loyalty, real relationships, and a competitive edge.

You are what you dream you are and become. And, I wish Americans would get out of the sickness and just become greater.

Behind any Strength lies a greater Love.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.