Best Quotes Around the World

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It’s hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

I don’t do research. I never have.

My drive is other people’s success.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs – derivatives – exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

Life is our dictionary.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

I just want to keep writing music.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The ‚Pro-Sim‘ is pretty much the best simulator you can buy, because of the steering motor and the pedals. The force feedback we get through the steering is pretty much exactly the same as what we get in the actual car in terms of how heavy it is.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Genius, when young, is divine.

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office – anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.