Greatest Quotes

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.