Best Quotes Around the World

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

I’m an inventor.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

You can’t remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn’t have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

What is once well done is done forever.

Death is a fearful thing.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

I don’t like L.A. It’s just not fun. I don’t know why, but I just don’t get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‚palpable‘ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.