Best Quotes Around the World

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I’ve had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Empire and liberty.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.