Best Quotes Around the World

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The thing is, ‚Discworld‘ had been going on for a very long time, and I’ve written children’s books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I’d do is I’d franchise it to myself.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Control is the source of strategic power.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.