Greater Quotes

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

There is no power greater than true affection.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

Those who start later, tend to achieve greater

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

I get the whole thing, I can't talk about it. But they're talking and they got an offer. I hope Axl[Rose] can see the greater picture and not be mad at Duff [McKagan] and Slash.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Man is greater than the gods.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now.

The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.