Best Quotes Around the World

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‚cluh-CLICK-click.‘ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.