Best Quotes Around the World

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

The thing that’s made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

America is another name for opportunity.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Life is a dead-end street.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival – the freaks who bite the heads off chickens – but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.