Best Quotes Around the World

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

True friends stab you in the front.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

As you think, so shall you become.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I’m a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there’s very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in ‚I Shall Wear Midnight,‘ which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they’re practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don’t fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Action expresses priorities.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.