Best Quotes Around the World

When people are lame, they love to blame.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I have always believed in God.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s – military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I don’t like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I’m kind of a hands-on type of person.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

I started off with sim driving, playing ‚Gran Turismo,‘ and my Dad had some sort of Logitech steering wheel with pedals for the PlayStation 2.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.