Best Quotes Around the World

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Competition is a sin.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

Everything isn’t political.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

People want to feel hopeful.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

All great achievements require time.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I’ve been such a big fan of his acting.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.