Best Quotes Around the World

There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it’s not so much a good joke anymore. ‚Everybody’s from Scranton; no one’s in Scranton.‘

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

People everywhere love Windows.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

I’m not a big politics guy.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.