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The Worlds Greatest Quotes

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
- Paulo Coelho

Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
- Paulo Coelho

It is said that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie
- Paulo Coelho

...that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
- Paulo Coelho

At a certain pont in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the worlds greatest lie.
- Paulo Coelho

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
- Thomas Bowdler

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
- Charles Bukowski

Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery
- Sorin Cerin

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
- Chris Christie

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
- Ernest Cline

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
- Hillary Clinton

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns,... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.
- Terry Pratchett

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.
- Perry Como

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.
- David Cone

Thomas Jefferson High
School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of
the world's greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Gentlemen, nerd girls are the world's greatest underutilized romantic resource.
- John Green

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
- Nora Ephron

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
- Bob Hayes

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
- A J Jacobs

I am possibly the world's greatest magician, because I don't just vanish off stage, I vanish from your memory. I'll bet you're probably thinking, "I don't remember seeing you," or "I've never seen you." And that just goes to show you how good I am.
- Jarod Kintz

It's like Mark Twain once said to his wife, Olivia: "How many times do I have to say itover the top!" He wasn't talking about women being overly dramatic. He was in fact referring to the proper placement of toilet paper. And I agree to a certain extent. Women can be very dramatic at times. * Quote and anecdote taken from Dora J. Arod's biography titled: "Mark Twain's Mustachethe World's Greatest Facial Hair. Or Certainly Top Three, and No Lower Than Number Four."
- Jarod Kintz

I am the world's greatest American. I narrowly beat out all of China for the title.
- Jarod Kintz

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
- Walter Russell Mead

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it.... It's a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are a spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be an artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
- Ann Patchett

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
- Rick Perry

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.
- Jeffrey Sachs

Though outwardly Kristina maintained that a clean room was a symptom of a diseased mind (for how could she, while studying the world's greatest thinkers, be bothered with such mundane earthly issues as cleaning?), inwardly she hated untidyness and made a point of spending as little time in the room as possible.
- Paullina Simons

The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.
- James E Talmage

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
- Major Taylor

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
- Fred Thompson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
- Alexander Fraser Tytler

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