Best Quotes Around the World

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I am a tough guy.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don’t make money from as a cost.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.