Best Quotes Around the World

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I am just one human being.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When you make a TV show, they always say you’re a guest in someone’s home. Online, you’re a guest in someone’s face. So that’s why I try to make it sound and look and feel very inviting and attractive, because I know that I’m in your face.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

To live is to think.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

We are all special cases.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I and haven’t been unemployed for 20 years. I’m an exception to the rule.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.