Best Quotes Around the World

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Words are loaded pistols.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Look, the American people are smart.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

You just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, ‚You know, there’s no sound in outer space.‘

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.