Best Quotes Around the World

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it’s been proven that they were not exaggerating.

I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

There’s no formula.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

This was life in the ’30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.