Best Quotes Around the World

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

‚Crazy‘ is a term of art; ‚Insane‘ is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.