Best Quotes Around the World

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don’t think so.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

The worst men often give the best advice.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

There are two problems for our species‘ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.