Best Quotes Around the World

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

The U.S. military was segregated ‚til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I have good days and bad days.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I’ve often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn’t really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn’t seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

In time of war the laws are silent.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.