Best Quotes Around the World

How can a president not be an actor?

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I never talk about my next project.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

War is a contagion.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.