Best Quotes Around the World

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

In ‚Huckleberry Finn,‘ I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.