Best Quotes Around the World

He that’s secure is not safe.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

The object of the superior man is truth.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I miss my singing career very much.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

It is natural to want to have a future.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

It’s nice when little teams win.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.