Greater Quotes

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

The greater part performed achieves the less.

The greater the trust within the couple, the greater the opening to share in love.

The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.