Best Quotes Around the World

I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

I don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

I need to know how many records I’ve sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we’re gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It’s all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don’t think Kennedy should have done it. I don’t think Johnson should have done it, and I don’t think we should have done it.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.