Best Quotes Around the World

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Paris is always a good idea.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

I believe in being an innovator.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.