Best Quotes Around the World

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‚space cheese.‘ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

If we didn’t have the Chinese buying things, we’d be on the floor.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.