Best Quotes Around the World

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‚Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?‘

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

I hate to be smart.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

Begin with the end in mind.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Acting is happy agony.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I read the Bible every day.