Best Quotes Around the World

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I had writer’s block for almost a year.

I kind of look up to Lewis, not as a hero, but as a very good driver who is very fast. Everyone has to admire his pace, especially in qualifying. He is a driver I support, in terms of him being British, and I want him to win, but he isn’t an idol to me.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God’s people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Racism is real in this country.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.