Best Quotes Around the World

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

No driver is perfect.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there’s old luggage, a couple of bikes. It’s big enough to put one minivan in. That’s it. No dartboard. I’m so not macho.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don’t see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, ‚Why don’t you write your autobiography?‘

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.