Greatest Quotes

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

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.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.