Best Quotes Around the World

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off ‚Mailbox Money‘ than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

There’s a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn’t care about it, my classmates didn’t care about it, my relatives didn’t care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

It’s a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn’t go through banks.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it’s far more advanced.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.