Greater Quotes · Page 53

Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to…

— Henry Rosovsky

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

— Stephen Hawking

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

— Dalai Lama

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…

— Thomas Berry

“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided…

— John Adams

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from…

— Hugh Kingsmill

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

— David Walker

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

— Anselm of Canterbury

Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when…

— James Stewart

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than…

— Phil Donahue

It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a…

— Ray Toro

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to…

— Chuck Feeney

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater…

— Ben Okri

The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens…

— Stanley Krippner

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

— Samuel Daniel

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the…

— Alexander Meiklejohn

A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In…

— Deepak Chopra

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is…

— Cliff Curtis

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

— N.K. Jemisin

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

— George Bernard Shaw

There's got to be something greater than us.

— Ajay Naidu

The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become…

— Georg Cantor

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

— Robert Penn Warren