Best Quotes Around the World

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Live dangerously and you live right.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I don’t write letters anymore.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I like surprises.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.