Best Quotes Around the World

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I can express myself.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.