Greatest Quotes

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

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