Best Quotes Around the World

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

In every parting there is an image of death.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.