I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China. – John Pomfret
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. – John Woolman
I’m just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That’s my motivation; that’s what I strive for. Tim is one of the greatest players who has ever played, so if I could get close or reach that plateau and have my name on that list. – Kawhi Leonard
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That’s the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. – Mickey Mantle
The thing that’s tricky is sometimes the best voices – just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing – it doesn’t necessarily mean they make the greatest artists. – Kara DioGuardi
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. – Lafcadio Hearn
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. – Moby
I’m a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don’t think he’s the greatest player ever. – John Salley
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow. – Laura Dern
I’m trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game. – Kawhi Leonard
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. – Joko Beck
Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I’m never going to stop that. – Jay Pharoah
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God. – Lactantius
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. – J. M. Roberts
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. – Marco Rubio
When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly. – Lisa Rinna
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That’s the greatest sketch comedy you’ll ever see on television. – Jamie Farr
I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, it’s one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because I’ve been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world. – Michael Phelps
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. – James Cronin
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn’t have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn’t important it would just be a poem. – Julian Cope
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. – John Drinkwater
My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can’t. – Jess Row
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn’t political and racist in refusing to worship with us. – Michael Eric Dyson
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. – Miguel de Cervantes
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. – James Tobin
I’m going to reveal the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It’s a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high. – Lawrence Kudlow