Best Quotes Around the World

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.