Greatest Quotes

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.