Best Quotes Around the World

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

I do write a lot of children’s songs, and I’m going to do a children’s television show, which also means I’ll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to – as my father puts it – finally have a real job.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‚whiz kids‘ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I will never retire unless I have to.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.