Best Quotes Around the World

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Years and years ago, I did a game based on ‚Hitchhiker’s Guide‘ with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys‘ table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.