Best Quotes Around the World

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading.

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I have Asperger’s, I’m on the autism spectrum, so I don’t really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

‚Socialize‘ means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

Of course I get hurt.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Big Brother is watching you.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The city is a body and a mind – a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.