Quotes of: Greater-importance Keyword

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

John Hutton

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Don Cheadle

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

Peter Riegert

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Authentic kindness has a power greater than rock, paper and scissors combined.

Toni Sorenson

What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?

Life

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

Vironika Tugaleva

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

William Saroyan

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

William Vickrey

A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you.

Zechariah Barrett

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'

Srikumar Rao

It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.

Yiddish

We are all glorified motion sensors. Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change. We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same time we observe and obsess over sma...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

The Designated Drivers' Club

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Double Trouble