Best Quotes Around the World

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The ‚take control of things‘ mode, the ‚be careful, watch out‘ mode, the ‚speed‘ mode – the ‚Red Bull‘ mode, actually. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s all part of what we are.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Never find fault with the absent.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

And yet it moves.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

You can be passionate about anything.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.