Best Quotes Around the World

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

I like to give back.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

I just want to be a great example to younger kids.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I don’t see anything that’s come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.