The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

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

Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour.

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 world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he’s been reincarnated, or if he’s looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening...

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director’s brief completely. The film is always the director’s visual baby.

It’s hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he’s really limited to a style and they’re locked into it.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That’s why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

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.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn’t even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

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

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

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.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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,...

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

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 – the Impossible Dream season – that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably...

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

All the world wondered as they witnessed… a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

There’s no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can’t quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

I said I was ‘The Greatest,’ I never said I was the smartest!

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I...

Email is the greatest thing.

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

Nuclear proliferation – the proliferation of WMDs altogether – is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

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.

It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people’s lives… for that I give thanks.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you’re not the center of your own universe.

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

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

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.

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. ‘Lamb’s Tales’ from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave’s ‘Golden Treasury.’ These two books, and the ‘Everyman’...

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don’t have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don’t hear too much about.

Atlanta? I think it’s the greatest city anywhere I know of.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

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

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in...

But – but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you’re going to mess up. That’s what grace is for. We’re going to fall, but we’ve...

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

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