In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
Doris Lessing
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to becomre an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and at yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the sme process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of.
Norman Vincent Peale
Our military superiority is so great — it’s far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days… Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad… The odds are there’s going to be a war and it’s going to be not for very long.
Bill Clinton
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being
Joanna Macy
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
Ambrose Bierce
The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary.
An English Lord Chief Justice
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation
Kingman Brewster
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty
William Bennett
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.
John McCain
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
Alan Bullock