Best Quotes Around the World

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

That government is best which governs least.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I like Aurora, ‚Sleeping Beauty,‘ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I’m just a little kid from Akron.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

I really like children to watch my movies.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.