Best Quotes Around the World

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

If you like good ol‘ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

My favorite writers have been those who’ve said things well.

I love trying new things.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

My mom and I are very close.