Greater Quotes
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.
So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.
With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.
I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.
Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.
It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.
The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.