Best Quotes Around the World

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike’s Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It’s like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.