Best Quotes Around the World

There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I think I work much harder on the children’s books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I’ve never been quite certain why this is.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

I have suffered most of the things I write about – or my friends have.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

No place is better than Akron.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.