I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan Miro

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean de la Bruyere

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
Johnny Vegas

Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
David Hilbert

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
David Herbert Lawrence

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
Eudora Welty

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
Diana Ross

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hosea Ballou

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
Franz Schubert

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
Wynton Marsalis

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
Robert Ludlum

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
Jasmine Guy