Best Quotes Around the World

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

I have wasted my hours.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I dislike the concept of ‚chic‘ being the highest compliment for a human being. I’d rather someone be nice than to be chic.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.