Best Quotes Around the World

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

I just like tattoos.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

I like to feel blonde all over.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.