Best Quotes Around the World

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator – just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil – especially for corrections.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‚You Can’t Go Home Again‘ and ‚Look Homeward, Angel.‘

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

If you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it’s pretty intense.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘