Top 1200 Greater Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

It is so difficult to do any work nonviolently if you don't have the constant awareness of someone who is greater than you are - someone greater who will not just fight for you but who is there to console you.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

The greater the responsibility, the greater the reward.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

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.

The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.

There are ways of staying under the radar here, and they're effective to a degree. But if you're an ambitious person and you're confident your career is moving in the direction you want it to, you know the attention is only going to become greater and greater.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."

You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things over and over, with more heart assurance that we're doing everything for Him.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

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

The greater the giving, the greater the living.

An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees.

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

The greater the faith, the greater the result.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Some of the greater things are unseen. That's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.

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

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.