Greater Quotes
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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 -
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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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 -
The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
Genghis Khan -
The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks -
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Norman Vincent Peale -
The greater the man the greater the courtesy.
Alfred the Great -
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.
David G. McAfee
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Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.
Herbert Spencer -
No matter what challenge you’re facing or situation you’re going through, always remember this. You are bigger, stronger, greater, more significant, more powerful, more resilient, and more important than any of your problems.
Clifton Anderson -
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 -
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
William Wordsworth -
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 -
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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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
William Hazlitt -
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
Petrarch -
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
Art Spander -
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
Arthur Helps -
The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
Bert Hellinger -
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
Galen Beckett
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
Ernest Rutherford -
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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 -
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!
Richard Feynman