Best Quotes Around the World

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Applause waits on success.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.