Best Quotes Around the World

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

When one side benefits more than the other, that’s a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Service of any type requires preparation.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

One can’t predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Where there is love there is life.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Religions get lost as people do.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it’s really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform – or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.