Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund BurkeI often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert FrostI like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry PratchettIn the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
Billy GrahamFor me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.
Stephen CurryAmong the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma GandhiIt took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack ObamaI get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.
Virat KohliMan has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Elon MuskIt’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
Henry KissingerWhen my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
Joe BidenWell, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard BransonGrounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl JungRead about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.
Jim MattisRonald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Christopher HitchensOh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.
Abraham LincolnIf my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
Woody AllenHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaLeadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.
Henry KissingerAviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.
Amelia EarhartI have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.
George BestBy working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert FrostOnce I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.
Richard P. FeynmanWhen my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
Mr. TWe were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
John LennonI have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth IIOur desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert HubbardWork is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil GibranHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawIf aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen HawkingI wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
Michelle ObamaWhen the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill GatesI did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.
Jocko WillinkIt is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai LamaAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar WildeNever throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltBodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiCardi B put a lot of work in.
Nipsey HussleThe point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
Franklin D. RooseveltLet’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
Dolores HuertaCommitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul SartreThe things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.
Robert GreeneThe three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas CarlyleTo make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘
Muhammad AliAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy CarterRacing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
Ayrton SennaThe United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will RogersI don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.
Angelina JolieI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauBoredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur SchopenhauerI worked my face off.
Frank OceanIn the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
John F. KennedyThe Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai LamaIn ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry PratchettI was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Lady GagaThe joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.
Sunil ChhetriEvery time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
Noam Chomsky