Best Quotes Around the World

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I dote on his very absence.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I love to clean.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

My son has died of AIDS.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy – people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online – but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can’t use the net unless you can read.