Best Quotes Around the World

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn’t be found.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

The federal election statutes are primarily meant to be civil. That doesn’t mean that you can’t have a criminal violation of the FEC provisions, but that’s just my personal opinion.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.