Best Quotes Around the World

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

After an era of everything being super-sized, who would have thought that major companies would be racing to market smaller, lower-calorie versions of their snacks and beverages – from half-sized candy bars to little, mini soda cans? We see it everywhere we go.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It’s always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.