Best Quotes Around the World

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Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Marilyn Monroe

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.

John Kennedy

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

I don’t think the U.S. military is conservative. It’s pragmatic.

Jim Mattis

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Tom Brady

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Voltaire

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Aldous Huxley

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Vivienne Westwood

Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Mark Twain

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Alexander Pope

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Tennessee Williams

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

George Best

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

George Washington

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Stephen Covey

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Golda Meir

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Marilyn Monroe

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet. I think that’s sort of a characteristic of the way I’ve worked ever since I started.

Brian Eno

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Neil Armstrong

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

Brene Brown

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Elon Musk

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Stephen King

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

Stephen Hawking

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Sunil Chhetri

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Warren Buffett

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus

Time is bunk.

Douglas Adams

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Paulo Coelho

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Ronald Reagan

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Oscar Wilde

You give before you get.

Napoleon Hill

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Amy Winehouse

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

Man lives for science as well as bread.

William James

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Isaac Asimov

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

Lana Del Rey

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Martin Luther

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Voltaire

When I write, I try to become different characters.

Billie Eilish

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Marilyn Monroe

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Bono