Best Quotes Around the World

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Fight with a happy heart.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

Belief creates the actual fact.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.