Best Quotes Around the World

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

I didn’t pay my taxes for years.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events – Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima – so it’s more visible.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

I don’t read books much.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

This younger generation that’s around, that’s tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Every artist was first an amateur.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

If you give, you will be blessed.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‚Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.‘ I don’t want to be part of that.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

I’m very free-spirited.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.