Best Quotes Around the World

Law is mind without reason.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Beware the hobby that eats.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

How young can you die of old age?

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

No sane man will dance.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Be not a slave of words.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.