Best Quotes Around the World

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

The Gospel has never changed.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I’m such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I’m an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody’s energy. But I give it back.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism’s creative destruction of slower industries.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!