Best Quotes Around the World

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

You make more money if you’re generous.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

I’m committed to the fight game.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor.