Best Quotes Around the World

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

You can’t trust very many people.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Science is magic that works.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it’s kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the ’60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.