Best Quotes Around the World

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass – the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that – so they’re kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‚I,‘ meaning ‚we.‘

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.