Best Quotes Around the World

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Computers double their performance every month.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

I don’t go to parties in general.

We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.