Best Quotes Around the World

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

I look after people.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

What a nice night for an evening.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Being seventy is not a sin.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.