Best Quotes Around the World

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

You can’t just let nature run wild.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on the outside!

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Work alone is noble.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

When I’m being funny, I try not to offend. I don’t think much of what I’ve done has been in really ghastly taste. I don’t think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I don’t want a brat on my team.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I start each book when it’s ready and never before.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.