Best Quotes Around the World

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

I can’t think without my glasses.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.