In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.
I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
