Greater Quotes

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.