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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
- Mark Twain

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
- Madeleine Albright

Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company."
"We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.
- Cassandra Clare

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- Plato

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
- Plato

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.
- Melina Marchetta

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.
- Jane Austen

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.
- Bruce Babbitt

Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?
- Muriel Barbery

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- John Steinbeck

It doesn't have to be the greatest. It does have to be you.
- Ray Bradbury

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.
- Clancy Brown

At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.
- Nicholas Sparks

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
- Benjamin Franklin

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
- Jim Carrey

Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
- Arthur C Clarke

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The bible may be the greatest story every told, but the most popular story is about a couple fornicating that stops for one reason or another while it is still novel.
- Kurt Vonnegut

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Sure the bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a good time fornicating, but then stops for one reason or another while it is still a novelty.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
- Katherine Dunham

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
- Victor Hugo

About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.
I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
- Xiaolu Guo

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.
- Jane Hamilton

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
- L Ron Hubbard

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
- L Ron Hubbard

I may not be the greatest American, but I am a better American than all the people born in Canada that still live in Canada.
- Jarod Kintz

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
- Bob Kane

We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.
- Jacqueline Kelly

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
- Mary Landrieu

They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way and I understood not only how entirely generous they were but also that generosity might be the greatest pleasure there is.
- William Maxwell

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.
- Mike Mccready

Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened.
- Carolyn Meyer

Of his new book, Don says: It might be the greatest book ever written. I don't think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I'm going to use the money to go to space.
- Donald Miller

Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
- Danica Patrick

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
- Yahoo Serious

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
- Mike Singletary

To Never Have been born may be the greatest boon of all
- Sophocles

This will be the greatest discovery since the extinction of dinosaurs."
"Assuming dinosaurs did exist, that is," Derkein said.
Alex shook her head. "Couldn't just let me have this moment, could you?
- Alecia Stone

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.
- Peter Stuyvesant

LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT
- M G Wells

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