Greater Quotes · Page 88

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

— Edith Hamilton

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace…

— Leon Jouhaux

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that…

— Bertrand Russell

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

— Charles Spurgeon

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it…

— Richard J. Foster

Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation…

— Adolf Hitler

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing…

— Daniel H. Pink

I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness…

— Tani Cantil-Sakauye

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that…

— Gretchen Rubin

Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person…

— Evelyn Underhill

There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you…

— Parker J. Palmer

Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies…

— Seth Berkley

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by…

— Shirley Chisholm

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole…

— Arthur C. Clarke

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.

— Barack Obama

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and…

— Charles R. Swindoll

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world,

— Robin Williams

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

— Brené Brown

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

— Ernest Hemingway

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and…

— Joseph Addison

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to…

— Edvard Munch

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

— Ann Druyan

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony…

— Plato

I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in…

— Mark Dvoretsky

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,…

— Thomas Browne

I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need…

— Wes Streeting

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists -…

— Daniel Goleman

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

— Leonard Jacobson

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

— Matthew Henry

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.…

— George Bernard Shaw

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or…

— Ernest Hemingway

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…

— Richard Diebenkorn

The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat…

— Chretien de Troyes

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or…

— Tim Johnson

The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than…

— Archimedes