Greater Quotes
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.
You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.
Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'
The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.
There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind
If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!
(You know) you're improving from fight to fight (when you can) showcase your talents against greater opponents every time.
The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!
May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed.
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.
I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.
I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
