Greatest Quotes

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.