Greatest Quotes

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.

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

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

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

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.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.