Best Quotes Around the World

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Music is like film to me.

When you’re recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can’t necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

I have the space and liberty to create.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I’m so fair.

In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‚Oh, there’s the ground.‘ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.