Greatest

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side, my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

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

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater, to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom, and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares, but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

'Rock n' Roll Animal,' the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

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

I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.

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.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll, she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.

It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

I had the greatest year of my career in 2007. It's a year that I'm very proud of.

The births of my two daughters were the two greatest moments of my life.

There's absolutely no comparisons to me or anyone else to Willie Mays. Willie Mays, he's the greatest baseball player of all time.

My greatest success story has been my family.

America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie, it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in, they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.

Vietnam ended a failure: repeatedly, to me, Kissinger described it as his greatest, and most persistent regret. But Congress was more to blame than Kissinger.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

God gave me all this, why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That's just a great feeling.

It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

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 am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

I hope I'll have the opportunity to debate how we reform and update our immigration system. I will relate my own story and that of the countless immigrants whose American Dream stories have helped build our country into the greatest nation in the world.

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

I kind of - I like my life, I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.

The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.

The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

Louie is hugely talented. But I get very annoyed at the way the media... say, 'Louis C.K. is the greatest stand-up in the world.' He's not the greatest stand-up in the world. He's not funnier than Dave Attell.

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

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

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.

'Loose Ends' was an all-female crew and one of the greatest on-set experiences I've ever had. We were ahead of schedule every day, and there was a laid-back, calm, supportive vibe that was entirely new to all of us.

After doing 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't expect to do other musicals, but then I was offered 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are two of the greatest pieces of theater that I can think of. So obviously I wasn't going to be like, 'Oh I'm trying to really stay away from musicals right now, so thanks, but I'll pass.'

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

New York is the greatest city in the world.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best, provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

I think the greatest goal I've ever scored is the one against Liverpool. It was amazing for me, and it really made my name in the Manchester team.

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

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

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, 'Make a 'Gulal 2' or 'Gangs 3,' that I am living my dream, not theirs.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

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

Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated, it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

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 like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

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

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Love is so unconditional, love liberates, love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Reading is an act of civilization, it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.

Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and the so-called Rush Babies.

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives, religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.