Best Quotes Around the World

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

Love is an interesting thing.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‚Fahrenheit 451.‘ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Every day I pray about all I do.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Comedy Central was a great network, but ‚Chappelle’s Show‘ took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the ‚Chappelle‘ reruns. For BET, the ‚Real Husbands of Hollywood‘ has that same potential.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

I don’t have many sad days.

I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Delay is preferable to error.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

I like school and I like learning.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.