Best Quotes Around the World

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

The word ‚racism‘ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‚racist.‘

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

I give opinions, not advice.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

Better never than late.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I’d love to do a musical. I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.