Best Quotes Around the World

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There’s really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I’m a big follower and reactor to weather.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

You know what, I’d done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.