Top 100 One Of The Greatest Sayings

#1. Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

Robert Bryce

One Of The Greatest Sayings #2999
#2. To be in love with the person who want to "Be the one that you can't live without" and is willing to prove it with their love for you, is one of the greatest joys in life.

Ellen J. Barrier

One Of The Greatest Sayings #4013
#3. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

W. Somerset Maugham

One Of The Greatest Sayings #4194
#4. No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

Paul Gauguin

One Of The Greatest Sayings #6230
#5. I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

Jack Johnson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #7782
#6. It's one of our greatest human flaws: Arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.

Romina Russell

One Of The Greatest Sayings #8110
#7. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Ovid

One Of The Greatest Sayings #9096
#8. I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

Paul Bettany

One Of The Greatest Sayings #9482
#9. For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.

Jon Favreau

One Of The Greatest Sayings #9937
#10. One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

Eric Balfour

One Of The Greatest Sayings #10047
#11. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

John Krasinski

One Of The Greatest Sayings #10517
#12. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].

Billy Graham

One Of The Greatest Sayings #10721
#13. I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

Ze Frank

One Of The Greatest Sayings #11002
#14. I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.

John Bytheway

One Of The Greatest Sayings #11033
#15. I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Pete Fountain

One Of The Greatest Sayings #11057
#16. One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

Michael Ignatieff

One Of The Greatest Sayings #12608
#17. I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

Ann M. Martin

One Of The Greatest Sayings #14351
#18. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Edward R. Murrow

One Of The Greatest Sayings #14845
#19. Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world.

Randy Pausch

One Of The Greatest Sayings #21895
#20. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.

Anderson Cooper

One Of The Greatest Sayings #22840
#21. 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

One Of The Greatest Sayings #23337
#22. I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

Eminem

One Of The Greatest Sayings #32587
#23. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

John Locke

One Of The Greatest Sayings #37420
#24. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Robert Thurman

One Of The Greatest Sayings #38346
#25. One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

Rosemary M. Wixom

One Of The Greatest Sayings #38856
#26. One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

Archibald Hill

One Of The Greatest Sayings #39659
#27. For all the opportunities that arise from the Fourth Industrial Revolution - and there are many - it does not come without risks. Perhaps one of the greatest is that the changes will exacerbate inequalities. And as we all know, a more unequal world is a less stable one.

Klaus Schwab

One Of The Greatest Sayings #42564
#28. In one of the greatest invitations ever offered to man, Christ stood up amid the crowds in Jerusalem and said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever

John Eldredge

One Of The Greatest Sayings #42966
#29. The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

George Saintsbury

One Of The Greatest Sayings #46129
#30. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day

One Of The Greatest Sayings #46313
#31. A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

Chelsea Clinton

One Of The Greatest Sayings #47103
#32. One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

Bernard Kelvin Clive

One Of The Greatest Sayings #47751
#33. Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

Chris Bauer

One Of The Greatest Sayings #54030
#34. Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

Ben Jonson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #57249
#35. 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.

Amanda Palmer

One Of The Greatest Sayings #57590
#36. He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game.

Michael Shaara

One Of The Greatest Sayings #58369
#37. I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.

Jay Parini

One Of The Greatest Sayings #59378
#38. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

Dan Pearce

One Of The Greatest Sayings #60657
#39. I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

Willow Shields

One Of The Greatest Sayings #60888
#40. Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.

William, Saroyan

One Of The Greatest Sayings #63010
#41. Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Ben Okri

One Of The Greatest Sayings #64685
#42. Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

John Krasinski

One Of The Greatest Sayings #66339
#43. To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

Hugh Jackman

One Of The Greatest Sayings #71384
#44. It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Common

One Of The Greatest Sayings #73558
#45. One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

John Dryden

One Of The Greatest Sayings #74734
#46. Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.

George Osborne

One Of The Greatest Sayings #75088
#47. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Marvin J. Ashton

One Of The Greatest Sayings #77242
#48. One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Barbara Smith

One Of The Greatest Sayings #79319
#49. Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Liya Kebede

One Of The Greatest Sayings #80512
#50. Hezekiah reigned forty-two years and was one of Judah's greatest kings (2 Kings 18 - 20; 2 Chron. 29 - 32). He not only strengthened the city of Jerusalem and the nation of Judah, but led the people back to the Lord. He built the famous water system that still exists in Jerusalem.

Warren W. Wiersbe

One Of The Greatest Sayings #82224
#51. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

Brandon Sanderson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #83497
#52. The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

One Of The Greatest Sayings #86212
#53. Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

Jon Jones

One Of The Greatest Sayings #86225
#54. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.

Denis Fitzpatrick

One Of The Greatest Sayings #86456
#55. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

John Kenneth Galbraith

One Of The Greatest Sayings #86833
#56. No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

Bobby Jones

One Of The Greatest Sayings #87019
#57. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

Bryant McGill

One Of The Greatest Sayings #88184
#58. If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

Tom Peters

One Of The Greatest Sayings #90294
#59. As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.

Mario Andretti

One Of The Greatest Sayings #91760
#60. I will never be a stupid girl ... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before ... it's also much easier
and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself.

Pink

One Of The Greatest Sayings #94634
#61. The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard

One Of The Greatest Sayings #96346
#62. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Maya Angelou

One Of The Greatest Sayings #97242
#63. Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

Philip Schaff

One Of The Greatest Sayings #98329
#64. Get in the habit of speaking positive, faith-filled words over your life, because a healthy self-image is one of the greatest assets you can have. It will not only cause you to rise higher, but it will inspire others around you to live at their best.

Victoria Osteen

One Of The Greatest Sayings #98477
#65. One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

Ravi Zacharias

One Of The Greatest Sayings #100710
#66. Just as Anne had hoped, this child would one day bring England to such glory and power that its name would echo down the centuries as one of the greatest monarchs who ever lived.

Tracy Borman

One Of The Greatest Sayings #101500
#67. 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.

Nina Jacobson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #103135
#68. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

Agatha Christie

One Of The Greatest Sayings #105961
#69. The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Michael Lam

One Of The Greatest Sayings #106555
#70. One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

Nathan Myhrvold

One Of The Greatest Sayings #109278
#71. One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify ... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.

Gilbert F. White

One Of The Greatest Sayings #113294
#72. On May 17, 1933, before the Reichstag, Hitler delivered his "Peace Speech," one of the greatest of his career, a masterpiece of deceptive propaganda that deeply moved the German people and unified them behind him and which made a profound and favorable impression on the outside world.

William L. Shirer

One Of The Greatest Sayings #114711
#73. One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

One Of The Greatest Sayings #114822
#74. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

One Of The Greatest Sayings #116408
#75. I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

Heber J. Grant

One Of The Greatest Sayings #118653
#76. My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

David Rudisha

One Of The Greatest Sayings #119944
#77. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.

{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

J.J. Thomson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #125034
#78. One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.

Mark Victor Hansen

One Of The Greatest Sayings #127123
#79. One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

Vance Havner

One Of The Greatest Sayings #128049
#80. The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

Dalai Lama

One Of The Greatest Sayings #129558
#81. Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves.

Brad Meltzer

One Of The Greatest Sayings #130556
#82. For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

Denis Thatcher

One Of The Greatest Sayings #131503
#83. One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.

Kelly Bishop

One Of The Greatest Sayings #133097
#84. You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Charlie Munger

One Of The Greatest Sayings #133320
#85. The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

John Philip Sousa

One Of The Greatest Sayings #134342
#86. Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.

Paramahansa Yogananda

One Of The Greatest Sayings #135007
#87. David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

John Krasinski

One Of The Greatest Sayings #135741
#88. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

One Of The Greatest Sayings #137801
#89. There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end point for this wild trash: the greatest future, the biggest surface, the deepest chasm, the broadest desert and the largest burial ground on the planet. It's the ocean.

Edward Humes

One Of The Greatest Sayings #139541
#90. New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

Matt Bomer

One Of The Greatest Sayings #140909
#91. One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Calvin Coolidge

One Of The Greatest Sayings #141928
#92. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

Christian Bale

One Of The Greatest Sayings #142043
#93. One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated.

Hugo Chavez

One Of The Greatest Sayings #143100
#94. One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #143843
#95. A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Daniel Webster

One Of The Greatest Sayings #143863
#96. Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.

Herbert Wilf

One Of The Greatest Sayings #145009
#97. Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.

Ezra Taft Benson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #145013
#98. I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.

Ernst Junger

One Of The Greatest Sayings #145404
#99. Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

Tracee Ellis Ross

One Of The Greatest Sayings #145899
#100. China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.

Fred Thompson

One Of The Greatest Sayings #147342

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