Best Quotes Around the World

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

When you give, it comes back to you.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Only the educated are free.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‚Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,‘ and then they say, ‚Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!‘

A letter does not blush.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.