Quotes of: Greatest-thing Keyword

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

Arabella Weir

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Bruce Catton

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Alex Cox

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.

Saleem Sharma

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.

Life

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

William Osler

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

Adam Rapp

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

Alan Huffman

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

Richard Perle

Many people, through diverse spiritual practices and disciplines have sought enlightenment. Various phenomena, some of them potentially quite captivating, may occur along the path of spiritual development whether it leads to true enlightenment or not...

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same obj...

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

I am back in London in a couple of days and looking forward to Sunday. Here is what we are doing. 1. Going to see my favourite mad transgender folk singer at the Roundhouse. 2. Then I am going to feed you tapas in a little place by Mornington Crescen...

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that's all you get, that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it efforthless, like you don't give a shit how high the hill is or how far you've got to go. When you've practiced th...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's leg...

The Importance Of Living

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

Celestial Kings and Queens