All Quotes

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
‐‐ Mother Teresa

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
‐‐ Sean Covey

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
‐‐ Ace Frehley

One of the greatest gifts in life is giving time and giving love. It helps me to stay grateful and happy.
‐‐ Claire Holt

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
‐‐ Caroline Kennedy

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
‐‐ Ben Okri

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 gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
‐‐ Max Lucado

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.
‐‐ Mary Meeker

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
‐‐ James Cronin

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
‐‐ Robert Staughton Lynd

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.
‐‐ Jerry Speyer

One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it's mono.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
‐‐ Zack Wamp

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
‐‐ Charles Sturt

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
‐‐ Chris Van Hollen

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

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 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 satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
‐‐ Hortense Odlum

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
‐‐ Andre Kostelanetz

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
‐‐ Catherine Opie

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.
‐‐ Richard Harmon

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.
‐‐ Rob Paulsen

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.
‐‐ Michael McMillian

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
‐‐ Philip Yancey

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

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 threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.
‐‐ Helen Andelin

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.
‐‐ Shane McAnally

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
‐‐ Josh Billings

One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
‐‐ Jo Brand

One of the hallmarks of the sign of Aquarius is the campaign for justice. Everybody is my brother. Justice is very important to me.
‐‐ Morgan Fairchild

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
‐‐ John Bytheway

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.
‐‐ Anna Popplewell

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal