Best Quotes Around the World

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

It’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

People’s choice to become vegan, from people I’ve spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

You can’t go backward in life.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.