To unlock the greatest mysteries we must accept that we are nothing and all that we do know is relative to the size of The Earth in the cosmoses.

Your greatest enemies are those who prevent you from learning all there is to know and more.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

Email is the greatest thing.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

I come back to the same thing: We’ve got the greatest pipeline in the company’s history in the next 12 months, and we’ve had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we’re predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year ’06.

When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn’t even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn’t imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.

It’s nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, ‘The Wine Advocate.’ There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever’s going on in that particular culture. It’s the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder–if not impossible–to lose.

When you’re onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we’ve ever seen.

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that’s exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll’s humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on this little earth of ours some semblance of what we call paradise.And this great and wonderful man had to die!I...

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis – often despite the advice they were getting.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer’s mentality.

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

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

When we came out with ‘Lazy Sunday,’ the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn’t otherwise be possible – inventions that seem real and actually work.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

I thought I was God’s gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

Tell me I’m beautiful, it’s nothing. Tell me I’m intellectual – I know it. Tell me I’m funny, and it’s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don’t ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

Make no mistake about it. These are not ‘kookie’ birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Burroughs called his greatest novel ‘Naked Lunch,’ by which he meant it’s what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It’s very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in...

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It’s a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

I’m thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

The greatest men that ever lived were not born with great spoons but were able to convert great tests to greatness

We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.