Best Quotes Around the World

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‚naive‘ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‚bonsai.‘

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Obviously black matches with everything.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

I’m a fry lover.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it’s very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they’re doing.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.