Best Quotes Around the World

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I’m much healthier now.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Actor’s life is very long.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‚Chuck Berry‘.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Elegance is refusal.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.