Best Quotes Around the World

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

I used to live on one candy bar a day – it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.