Best Quotes Around the World

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

I’m a comic nerd. I’m a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

It’s rural America. It’s where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘