Best Quotes Around the World

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

The way I define ‚intelligent design‘ is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Silence is safer than speech.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I played Othello, but I didn’t sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn’t do me any good.

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Stand-up is hard.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I’m an only child.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.