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9,719 | 35,000 | I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? | Jackie Kennedy | home |
9,953 | 73,776 | It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. | Jim Elliot | women |
958 | 54,757 | Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. | J. G. Stedman | poetry |
10,467 | 31,124 | Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them. | Orison Swett Marden | great |
4,345 | 73,268 | This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God. | Ray Comfort | wisdom |
5,113 | 14,166 | Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. | Edvard Munch | death |
1,737 | 35,216 | Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people. | Kinky Friedman | home |
5,588 | 75,770 | I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. | Nathan Hale | memorialday |
201 | 75,683 | Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on. | Chris Frantz | christmas |
1,080 | 34,169 | Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | history |
8,557 | 59,711 | You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with. | Steve Nash | respect |
11,108 | 26,430 | I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. | Ian MacKaye | funny |
6,890 | 75,321 | I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough. | Alfred Eisenstaedt | work |
11,518 | 17,826 | Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe... | Peter Singer | experience |
8,465 | 67,630 | Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content. | John Dykstra | technology |
9,817 | 30,425 | Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | government |
5,516 | 5,170 | Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. | Rabindranath Tagore | beauty |
4,514 | 7,733 | Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. | Jeff Bridges | business |
4,276 | 15,478 | We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level. | Vicente Fox | dreams |
5,045 | 51,017 | Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl. | Kenny Chesney | music |
2,149 | 68,076 | But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore. | Harry Anderson | thankful |
7,796 | 40,112 | What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? | Paul Ryan | leadership |
1,987 | 43,981 | Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. | Jean Kerr | marriage |
2,943 | 17,195 | It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. | Zachary Quinto | equality |
5,892 | 10,973 | My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy. | Bode Miller | cool |
38 | 60,643 | More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. | Walter Isaacson | romantic |
7,728 | 50,763 | I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. | Willie Nelson | music |
1,506 | 41,909 | It is not length of life, but depth of life. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | life |
7,747 | 54,803 | Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. | Newt Gingrich | politics |
2,883 | 2,121 | I think Polanski's an amazing director. | David Duchovny | amazing |
8,080 | 12,742 | My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. | David Cassidy | dad |
5,291 | 44,107 | Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. | Soren Kierkegaard | marriage |
51 | 54,583 | For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. | Paul Muldoon | poetry |
9,607 | 57,562 | No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. | May Sarton | relationship |
11,199 | 49,426 | People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. | Mindy Kaling | movies |
3,895 | 19,720 | I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood. | Franz Liszt | faith |
10,610 | 38,037 | The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. | Alexander Cockburn | imagination |
7,928 | 20,873 | People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct. | Phillip Noyce | family |
390 | 66,742 | The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone. | Jessica Szohr | teacher |
11,532 | 21,446 | I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. | Sally Kirkland | famous |
11,009 | 68,166 | Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. | Aristotle | time |
10,345 | 22,759 | Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. | David Ricardo | finance |
11,229 | 42,208 | Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. | George Bernard Shaw | life |
5,937 | 24,659 | In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. | Merle Haggard | freedom |
3,584 | 25,336 | Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. | Samuel Pepys | friendship |
8,476 | 50,834 | I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. | Steve Hackett | music |
4,836 | 68,727 | Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. | Thomas Mann | time |
9,283 | 25,675 | It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. | Thomas Sowell | funny |
4,982 | 13,300 | I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. | Clarence Darrow | death |
494 | 60,295 | I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of. | Lisa Kudrow | respect |
8,660 | 57,049 | The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. | Ursula K. Le Guin | power |
5,955 | 14,902 | Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55. | Kenneth H. Cooper | diet |
4,626 | 7,305 | I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. | Henry David Thoreau | business |
3,991 | 73,250 | One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. | Walter Pater | wisdom |
7,938 | 3,728 | The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. | Emile Zola | art |
9,069 | 21,903 | The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. | Brian Tracy | fear |
10,221 | 14,202 | I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. | Martin Short | death |
11,353 | 13,077 | My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. | Scott McCloud | dad |
9,970 | 74,857 | The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. | T. S. Eliot | work |
5,934 | 9,111 | When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change. | Robert Anthony | change |
3,086 | 37,625 | Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. | Christopher Fry | imagination |
5,503 | 23,973 | I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food. | Erich von Stroheim | food |
9,403 | 8,302 | I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. | Valentino Rossi | car |
7,181 | 74,368 | Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. | Karen Horney | women |
8,758 | 29,255 | It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | good |
2,093 | 72,382 | During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground. | Fareed Zakaria | war |
1,168 | 14,785 | In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. | Winston Churchill | diet |
5,213 | 237 | Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | age |
6,307 | 67,390 | If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. | Ralph Merkle | technology |
9,376 | 45,610 | All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. | Orison Swett Marden | men |
2,266 | 57,294 | No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. | Harry Emerson Fosdick | power |
9,963 | 64,576 | A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. | Abraham Joshua Heschel | strength |
10,979 | 75,573 | I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. | Frank Butler | christmas |
8,135 | 18,858 | I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. | Molly Ringwald | failure |
2,511 | 11,674 | One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. | Miguel de Cervantes | courage |
1,853 | 55,032 | I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. | John Adams | politics |
2,287 | 35,198 | Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. | Joseph A. Schumpeter | home |
890 | 42,705 | My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. | Jimi Hendrix | life |
6,426 | 47,095 | My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. | Rob James-Collier | mom |
2,531 | 24,975 | In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well. | Vince McMahon | freedom |
10,904 | 528 | Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. | Annie Lennox | age |
3,720 | 44,771 | It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. | Mary Augusta Ward | marriage |
6,882 | 51,423 | All men by nature desire knowledge. | Aristotle | nature |
9,507 | 15,290 | We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. | Doris Lessing | dreams |
9,031 | 27,311 | The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. | Thornton Wilder | future |
4,291 | 45,029 | I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. | Larry Niven | medical |
1,965 | 11,192 | Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him. | Lucy Liu | cool |
6,920 | 25,644 | I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. | Frank Sinatra | funny |
5,332 | 63,893 | The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life. | Carl Lewis | sports |
9,165 | 28,493 | It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. | Ben Stein | god |
9,282 | 19,391 | Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. | Ted Cruz | faith |
39 | 37,326 | Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it. | Laura Ingraham | humor |
6,259 | 33,925 | If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. | David Horowitz | history |
9,170 | 67,822 | The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to. | Andrew Shue | teen |
4,879 | 25,255 | Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. | Aristotle | friendship |
8,194 | 43,428 | Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, r... | Bradley Whitford | love |
8,961 | 62,265 | That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. | Tony Snow | science |
5,634 | 45,454 | I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. | Marilyn Monroe | men |
9,804 | 15,800 | The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. | Carl Rogers | education |
4,224 | 63,355 | War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. | Lewis Mumford | society |
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