Best Quotes Around the World

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

God always wants us to be growing.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

I’m definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.