Greater Quotes · Page 70

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

— Tony Dungy

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power…

— Eduardo Galeano

Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Thomas Hobbes

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so…

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Julie Bowen

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

— Laurence Sterne

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

— Francis Atterbury

There's an opportunity for the corner drugstore to play a much greater role. Pharmacists have been extremely well respected - they're one…

— Gregory Wasson

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

— Thomas Menino

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society…

— Thomas Guthrie

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours…

— Archibald MacLeish

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the…

— John Maynard Keynes

Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie…

— Russell Simmons

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music…

— Isabelle Huppert

When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the…

— Dick Morris

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

— Mariane Pearl

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that…

— Nicholas of Cusa

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

— David Deida

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

— Anthony Powell

The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and…

— Samuel Smiles

I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

— Reinhard Bonnke

And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the…

— Michael Beckwith

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the…

— Catullus

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful…

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

— Alan Greenspan

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

— Julius Erving

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for…

— Nikola Tesla

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

— Samuel Butler

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

— Erol Alkan

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the…

— Peter Drucker

Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from…

— Luigi Russolo

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar…

— Paul Schrader

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who…

— Napoleon Hill

I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a…

— Rabindranath Tagore