Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.
Love isn't about what happens after, it's about how great it is finding that love. The greater the find and chase, the longer the love lasts.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
The most important events in every age never reach the history books.
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last
