Greater Quotes
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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
Hermann Hesse
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True experiences of angels always lead to a greater unity.
H. C. Moolenburgh
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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Cesare Beccaria
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In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
Emilio Ambasz
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Whenever you're dealing with fantasy, and you're doing vampires or anything that is not too based in reality, and you try to base it in reality, you have so much of a greater chance of sounding hokey.
Moon Bloodgood
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
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No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.
Carl Linnaeus
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Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
Bonaventure
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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.
Neil McDonald
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Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.
Damian Barr
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I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.
Conn Iggulden
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You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
Genghis Khan
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This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.
Mordicai Gerstein
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I felt a sort of energy flow through me that I had never felt before — as if I was a part of something greater than myself
Christian Picciolini
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To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.
Josh Peck
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I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.
Merrick Garland
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Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
David Wolpe
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
William Hazlitt
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The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.
Neil L. Andersen
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
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For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
J. R. R. Tolkien