Best Quotes Around the World

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

We just bought this house. It’s too big. It’s like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It’s just too big.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Never regret what you don’t write.

Lost time is never found again.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.