Greater Quotes

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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.