Best Quotes Around the World

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Be as you wish to seem.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It’s always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It’s just a special place.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Like associates with like.