Greater Quotes

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.