Best Quotes Around the World

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I never say I am a guru.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I’m not sure how I’d survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must drink 20 cups a day.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

The way ‚Lux‘ was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.

Some formulas are too complex and I don’t want anything to do with them.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.