Best Quotes Around the World

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Real living is living for others.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Hunger is the best pickle.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I don’t think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized – it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

I am two with nature.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.