Best Quotes Around the World

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

I’ve been known to preach.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I just don’t have time to get old!

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

I love diversity.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

We live in ugly times.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Men have become the tools of their tools.