Greatest Quotes

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.