Best Quotes Around the World

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

‚Kiss Land‘ is the story after ‚Trilogy‘; it’s pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it’s very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, ‚Why Japan?‘ I simply tell them it’s the furthest I’ve ever been from home. It really is a different planet.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

He that rises late must trot all day.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

When in doubt tell the truth.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.