Greater Quotes

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

There is no greater learning process than to teach.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia.

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.

People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

We have been cooperating with both the United States and Russia, have been actively supporting a greater understanding between them.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.