Best Quotes Around the World

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures – sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns – some organized by popular movements.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Bring them on.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.