Greatest Quotes

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

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.