Best Quotes Around the World

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn’t elect those people. Isn’t it supposed to be different? Aren’t we supposed to like the people that we elected?

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I write all of my own speeches.

France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Probably the reason it’s a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you’re getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you’re going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there’s a kind of bundle.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Qatar-based ‚Al-Jazeera,‘ the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having ‚emphasized civilian casualties‘ during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

I don’t care about money.

It’s good to make your brain work more than your body.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

Success is the child of audacity.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

My fat never made me less money.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.