Greatest Quotes

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.