Best Quotes Around the World

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout – a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Working out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

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 worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‚Sports Illustrated.‘ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‚Can Lou Do It?‘ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

It’s such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you’re going to do a day’s work and at the end of it, it’s going to be good.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

I feel Anglo-American.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.