Best Quotes Around the World

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let’s give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

I like to work and am a focused person.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it’s going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it’s 6. Done!

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.