Greater Quotes

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

There's no greater risk to the Israeli position in Washington than to make itself a partisan issue.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.

Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.