Best Quotes Around the World

In the real world, children love me.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‚The End Is Near,‘ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘