Best Quotes Around the World

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

Freedom is relative.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

We don’t sell data; we don’t allow anyone to sell data.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

The right-wingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading ‚The Creature from Jekyll Island‘ by G. Edward Griffin.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.