Best Quotes Around the World

I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

I’m no hillbilly singer.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Confine yourself to the present.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.