Greatest Quotes

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

~ Michael Specter

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

~ Rand Paul

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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

~ Abu Bakr

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

~ Isaac Newton

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

~ Samuel Johnson

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.

~ Bear Grylls

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

~ William James

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

~ Vince Lombardi

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

~ Mother Teresa

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

~ Socrates

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

~ Muhammad Ali

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

~ Tom Brokaw

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

~ Samuel Smiles

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

~ Nido Qubein

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

~ Benjamin Disraeli

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

~ Wernher Von Braun

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

~ David Hume

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

~ Plato

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

~ Christy Turlington

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

~ Jeff Bridges

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

~ Michael Dirda

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

~ Charles Trevelyan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

~ M. Night Shyamalan

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

~ Michael Bay

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

~ Peter Capaldi

'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

~ Laura Dern

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.

~ Mike Nichols

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

~ Jesse Ventura

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

~ Rush Limbaugh

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

~ Michael Malone

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.

~ Tim Schafer

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.

~ Alexander The Great

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

~ Charles Eames

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

~ Timothy Noah