Best Quotes Around the World

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

The future will be better tomorrow.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

My future is righteousness.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I run New York City!

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don’t like to comb my hair.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.