Greater Quotes

Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

My hobby (politics) has become my life. I have the greatest life imaginable. I think I have a greater life than anyone in the universe, in fact.

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

I think we should all be pursuing something of zero regrets, and how do we become greater than we were yesterday.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.

Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.

If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

There's no greater model, in my view, than Jesus Christ.

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war.

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.