Best Quotes Around the World

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I don’t know a country in the world that doesn’t have borders and doesn’t want to know who is coming into their country.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Fear is real, but so is love.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

Common sense is not so common.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.