Best Quotes Around the World

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Honesty is the best policy.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Man is by nature a political animal.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I have a collective sense of suffering.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.