Best Quotes Around the World

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

What keeps me going is goals.

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

My whole life is a theater piece.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers‘ contact book. Most consumers don’t want that to happen and don’t know it’s happening.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Christians are not limited to any church.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Young people can create beautiful things.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.