Brightest Quotes

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.