Best Quotes Around the World

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I bear a charmed life.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I write all my sermons.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

States are not moral agents.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

I’m a real estate guy.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.

This way of life is worth defending.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with ‚Porgy and Bess,‘ the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

You’re never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.