Best Quotes Around the World

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

My first win feels better than a draw!

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

I like to let things breathe.

Who of us has not had that situation where you’ve got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, ‚Well, I don’t know if your insurance company is going to cover this?‘ Let’s eliminate all of that.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

I love life because what more is there?

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

All I do is make music.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.