Best Quotes Around the World

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

This is not a bad life.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Never complain. Never explain.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Nothing great 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.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.