Best Quotes Around the World

I don’t like to be bored.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Everybody is entertained to death.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

God always takes the simplest way.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.