Greater Quotes · Page 93

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in…

— Allen Lacy

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership…

— Cliff Stearns

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

— Charles Darwin

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

— Anonymous

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better...

— C. S. Lewis

The greater person is one of courtesy.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,…

— John Foxe

While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more…

— James E. Faust

After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially…

— Johannes Kepler

When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a…

— Caspar David Friedrich

I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes…

— Cass Sunstein

Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more success [Donald] Trump has, the greater the energy poured into opposing him is gonna be. If you are thinking that…

— Rush Limbaugh

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness…

— Kitaro Nishida

Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and…

— Rich Barnes

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games,

— Ron Brown

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest…

— Frank B. Kellogg

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential…

— Edward Kennedy

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Chuck Feeney

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

— Samuel Smiles

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

— Henry L. Stimson

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

— Shirley Williams

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an…

— Mary Frances Berry

What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause…

— Brother Lawrence

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic…

— Adam Sedgwick

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing…

— Gary Numan

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not…

— Joseph Addison

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

— Alex Morrison

A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of…

— Laura Antoniou

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as…

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Thomas a Kempis

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus…

— Robert Greene

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater…

— A. R. Ammons

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself…

— James Chanos

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

— J. D. Salinger

The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater…

— George C. Marshall

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can…

— Eckhart Tolle