Best Quotes Around the World

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I don’t think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

I’ve been very fortunate.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‚engineering of consent‘ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Things do not change; we change.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It’s my go-to breakfast.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

We are wiser than we know.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

I cannot live without books.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.