Greater Quotes

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

Health is value greater than studying.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The part is greater than its role in the whole.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come to terms with the United States when Nixon visits China.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.

Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need for that different approach now is greater than ever.

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.