Best Quotes Around the World

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

The profoundly ‚atomic‘ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

The Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.