Best Quotes Around the World

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Reality is a sliding door.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don’t want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don’t want to live with the white man; that’s all.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

I’m a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I’ll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work – that’s Prince to me.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.