Best Quotes Around the World

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‚put up‘ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

The hypothesis of matter’s being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.