Top 625 Greater Quotes

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
Matthew Green
As winter weather settles in around the country, millio

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
Russ Carnahan
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.
David Sanborn
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer
South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Nguyen Cao Ky
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Soren Kierkegaard
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.
Shawn Achor
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier
To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.
Kristin Armstrong
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Pierre de Fermat
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. Maxwell
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
It doesn’t matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There’s something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
Mattie Stepanek
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Chiang Kai-shek
Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
Walter Lang
I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.
Aretha Franklin
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Mitch Daniels
Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it allows us to ensure greater customer relevance and reduce delivery times.
Doug McMillon
If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don’t have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.
Spencer Abraham
There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I’m reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
Kelly Clarkson
If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
Gary Locke
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
Leon Panetta
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive – in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
Edward Zwick
The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Herodotus
I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.
David Duval
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government’s responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb
I’ve always believed the mission is greater than the man.
Rick Perry
I opposed Clinton’s budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.
Dave Obey
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and t

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
Willard Gaylin
I don’t have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there’s a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don’t inflict harm where it’s not necessary.
Michael J. Fox
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. Freedom is always wise.
Alexander Meiklejohn
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George Eliot
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
Henry Laurens
No matter the natural disaster I’ve covered, whether it’s a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.
Ginger Zee
I don’t expect you’ll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn Warren
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Chris Hemsworth
There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
Shirley Williams
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall
And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn’t mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.
Michael Chertoff
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can’t imagine a greater success than she’s enjoyed.
Phil Donahue
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.
Jo Bonner
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
Bobby Seale
I’ve always been drawn to stories involving brothers, which started with my first viewing of Sean Penn’s, ‘The Indian Runner.’ This subsequently lead to my working with my two brothers, Scott & Brad. I couldn’t imagine a greater gift in the business.
Dean Winters
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
William Scott
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase – that is, as the wavelength decreases.
Johannes Stark
We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Irving Layton
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
William Blake
We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can’t do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.
David Duval
What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.
Luke James
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
Lee Strasberg