Best Quotes Around the World

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

We want to reinvent the phone. What’s the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It’s amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before – sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I do not pilfer victory.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

I do believe in self-help.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager’s goal.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

This lady is not for turning.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

I think I belong to America’s last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The rules are there for a reason.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.