Greater Quotes

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities, the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.