Best Quotes Around the World

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I always felt an outsider.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‚I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.‘

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

‚American Graffiti‘ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.