Best Quotes Around the World

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

I was raised to be independent.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.