Best Quotes Around the World

There is always safety in valor.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I don’t have anything to say about other people’s art and their work.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The white man is destroying the world.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn’t a big fan, it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.