It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
There’s no greater search than that of lost love.
The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. . . . Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Nothing's greater in life to see somebody who doesn't have start to value who they are and, as soon as they feel valued, they can change this world too.
Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know that the simple gift of being kind Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.
Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.
At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.
The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.
I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that's in the world.
Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.
You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.
The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.