Best Quotes Around the World

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys… Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house… and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Obscenity comes from grime.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

The North East has always been the hub to produce few of the best talents in the country and it is great for the people from the hills to have their own local club to cheer for considering the kind of passion they have for the game.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.