Browsing Topic Best Interesting Quotes

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I don’t need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

You can’t just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don’t just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be–and consistently.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, ‘The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.’ I know it’s not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it’s an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.

Graffiti writers will never stop. They’ll just evolve. It’s interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

I’m not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.

What’s in front of me is what’s most interesting.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

I don’t think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic… and don’t talk too much.

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won’t do it well anyway.

You’ve got to lose your passion for dumbness.

It’s very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.