Best Quotes Around the World

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body – they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.