Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Anderson

Most women I know have, in the service of some greater good, let their very lives wilt on the vine. We've dulled our personal lives while propping up everyone else's, and we're no longer able to even imagine having any sort of adventure, romance, meaning or purpose for ourselves.

Lynsey Addario

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Tony Blair

Libya has declared its intention to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and to limit the range of Libyan missiles to no greater than 300 kilometers, ... that this process will be transparent and verifiable.

Hermann Oberth

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Yochai Benkler

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Alan Cohen

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Alberto Moravia

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Rose George

When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Sylvester Stallone

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

There are other positions I would have liked to have seen a greater presence of African-Americans in, ... It isn't over until it's over. My role is to keep the pressure on.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Gerry Harvey

What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.

We watch the Internet all the time. It's important to see and find new things. If we stumble onto something good, we've sought people out to see if they have greater ambitions.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

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

Thomas Menino

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

This will give us greater flexibility in the future. We are not raising more money, this is about the original investors realizing some of their money.

There is no religion greater than truth and a truthful person knows no fear.

Shirley Williams

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

This shows that the less women have, the greater are their aspirations.

This represents the 12th consecutive year of greater than 100 percent reserves replacement.

This year the magnitude of the variability is probably greater than we've seen in as long as I can recall.

David O. McKay

Trust is greater than love.

We are starting to see a perception in the market that the high oil price could have a greater impact on inflation than originally expected.

There are projects that the original plan was to for them to be shot somewhere in the greater New Orleans area, and that's not an option now,