Greatest Quotes

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

I still think I am the greatest.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.