Best Quotes Around the World

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

From caring comes courage.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

When I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

I like being around people.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the ‚war on terror.‘ In contrast, Washington’s withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I can’t stand to see myself on television.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.

We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.