Best Quotes Around the World

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Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Billy Graham

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Pope Francis

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

Noam Chomsky

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Maya Angelou

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn’t elect those people. Isn’t it supposed to be different? Aren’t we supposed to like the people that we elected?

Bill Gates

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Taylor Swift

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write all of my own speeches.

Greta Thunberg

France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

Narendra Modi

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

H. L. Mencken

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Lady Gaga

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Dolly Parton

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Joe Biden

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Christopher Hitchens

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Robert Kiyosaki

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Kevin Hart

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Joyce Meyer

Probably the reason it’s a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you’re getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you’re going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there’s a kind of bundle.

David Byrne

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Noam Chomsky

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Thomas Sowell

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

George Eliot

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Bill Gates

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Joel Osteen

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Billy Graham

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Taylor Swift

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Bertrand Russell

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Qatar-based ‚Al-Jazeera,‘ the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having ‚emphasized civilian casualties‘ during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

Noam Chomsky

I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

Dolly Parton

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Joyce Meyer

I don’t care about money.

Lady Gaga

It’s good to make your brain work more than your body.

Conor McGregor

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Bill Gates

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Robert Kiyosaki

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Muhammad Ali

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Kevin Hart

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

Taylor Swift

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

George W. Bush

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Maya Angelou

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Henny Youngman

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Lando Norris

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Christopher Hitchens

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Joe Biden

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Joel Osteen

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Pope Francis

My fat never made me less money.

Dolly Parton

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Matthew McConaughey

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Lao Tzu