Best Quotes Around the World

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I love imperfections.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.