Best Quotes Around the World

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It’s not just 15-year-old girls. That’s kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

I love being active.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

I respect Soulja Boy.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

When I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

I like to take it easy.

I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played – you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area – Too Short, E-40 – you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I must have read every issue of ‚Punch‘ published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour – that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like ‚Three Men in a Boat.‘

I am not a televangelist.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.