Greatest Quotes
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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.
J. M. Roberts -
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
Vidal Sassoon -
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot -
When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
Yul Vazquez -
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
K. Eric Drexler -
For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
Imogen Cunningham -
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks -
Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
Damon Galgut -
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence Nightingale -
My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. Kelly -
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
Jack Carroll -
We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
Fat Joe -
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.
Adam Clarke -
Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney -
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Ramsey Clark
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Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
Lady Gaga -
I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
Gary Allan -
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson