Best Quotes Around the World

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Comedy’s about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you’re saying.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

America is the greatest country in the world.

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he’s ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.