c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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11,066	55,851	A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.	Wade Boggs	positive
11,286	49,613	I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.	Jane Fonda	movies
8,464	37,252	All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.	Patrick Warburton	humor
3,202	20,925	Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.	Vanessa Hudgens	family
1,219	32,680	Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.	Fanny Burney	happiness
10,732	21,653	I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.	Laura Kightlinger	famous
3,627	21,043	My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.	Wynonna Judd	famous
6,983	67,137	I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.	Jordin Sparks	technology
6,657	22,519	You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.	Lawrence Kasdan	fear
10,033	70,277	I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.	Douglas Wood	trust
9,026	6,915	The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.	Daniel Radcliffe	best
11,284	27,656	Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.	May Sarton	gardening
10,960	19,695	Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?	John Clayton	faith
5,803	69,176	All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.	Samuel Johnson	travel
675	33,122	For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.	David Suzuki	health
6,737	44,748	My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.	Nadia Comaneci	marriage
5,709	29,018	It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.	Caroline Kennedy	good
9,890	9,662	The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.	Simon Mainwaring	change
6,760	44,110	Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.	P. J. O'Rourke	marriage
5,535	7,320	Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.	Peter Drucker	business
8,488	25,593	It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.	Jennifer Beals	friendship
6,264	69,283	More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.	Joyce Maynard	travel
5,684	64,249	I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.	Dr. Dre	sports
6,123	14,918	Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.	Nicholas Stern	diet
9,732	75,170	The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.	Charles de Lint	work
11,638	26,561	When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.	Zach Galifianakis	funny
2,655	48,615	I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.	Gina Carano	morning
48	39,721	Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.	Boris Spassky	knowledge
6,866	45,855	Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.	Robin Hayes	men
6,659	62,074	And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.	John B. S. Haldane	science
6,024	8,496	If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.	Gus Van Sant	car
7,139	9,486	Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.	Nolan Ryan	change
5,214	70,140	Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.	Gustav Heinemann	trust
6,106	13,864	Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.	William Law	death
8,777	36,261	A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.	Daisaku Ikeda	hope
3,527	8,822	I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.	Patricia Highsmith	car
8,740	23,503	Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.	Carnie Wilson	food
8,461	25,560	I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.	Warren Christopher	friendship
1,629	30,371	The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.	Carly Fiorina	government
3,019	26,760	To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.	John F. Kennedy	future
10,664	1,999	It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.	Harry S. Truman	amazing
554	32,614	I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.	Michael Landon	happiness
8,157	24,636	There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.	William E. Gladstone	freedom
1,627	62,863	The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.	Thomas Paine	society
9,327	47,669	Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.	Rush Limbaugh	money
8,266	63,198	The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.	Emma Thompson	society
10,094	42,313	Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.	Gabriel Byrne	life
8,191	10,305	But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.	Tony Conrad	communication
4,045	30,362	Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.	Herbert Spencer	government
11,228	65,137	Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.	Josephus Daniels	strength
4,109	59,990	There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.	Bill Murray	respect
11,073	33,459	I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.	Debbie Stabenow	health
1,371	37,393	I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.	Jorge Luis Borges	imagination
7,326	43,703	If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.	Ann Landers	love
11,105	61,654	I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.	Temple Grandin	science
10,366	51,341	Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.	Roger Tory Peterson	nature
8,673	48,185	I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.	Larry King	morning
7,804	39,625	And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.	John Sergeant Wise	knowledge
8,311	37,279	All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.	Graham Kerr	humor
5,379	43,450	All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.	Mitt Romney	love
6,270	45,220	When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.	Ezra Pound	men
3,401	28,142	God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.	Aldous Huxley	god
9,174	39,264	But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.	Immanuel Kant	knowledge
6,598	55,901	Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.	Tiger Woods	positive
4,638	57,474	You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.	Victoria Pratt	relationship
96	42,224	Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.	Napoleon Hill	life
8,703	4,580	I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.	Helena Bonham Carter	art
4,418	63,271	Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.	John Ralston Saul	society
7,102	41,041	Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.	Orson Scott Card	learning
8,355	30,845	All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.	Friedrich Nietzsche	great
7,539	52,844	I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.	John Lennon	peace
4,765	51,470	No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.	Plato	nature
6,164	68,664	Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.	Victor Hugo	time
6,776	5,793	Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.	Janelle Monae	beauty
462	38,574	Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.	John Key	intelligence
515	34,694	Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.	Michelle Bachelet	history
11,567	34,135	Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.	P. J. O'Rourke	history
9,239	13,676	Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.	Jean Cocteau	death
6,937	32,696	Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.	Donna Rice	happiness
5,209	12,334	I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.	Rod Stewart	dad
336	70,976	Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.	Samuel Johnson	truth
7,028	15,103	The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.	Theodore Roosevelt	dreams
9,716	18,426	A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.	Elbert Hubbard	failure
9,129	16,012	Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.	Alexander Pope	education
10,707	9,497	It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.	Jonathan Davis	change
2,928	44,886	Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.	Anthony Edwards	medical
9,665	32,484	Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.	Georges Bataille	happiness
8,427	3,858	It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.	Oscar Wilde	art
1,417	70,266	I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.	Alex Campbell	trust
677	46,753	My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.	Emma Stone	mom
4,741	24,510	Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.	Theodor Adorno	freedom
9,404	9,818	Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.	Sarah Zettel	change
10,357	57,976	I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.	Tre Cool	relationship
2,155	4,683	Attitude is everything.	Diane von Furstenberg	attitude
11,119	32,668	The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.	Gertrude Jekyll	happiness
6,323	38,933	But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.	Cheryl Tiegs	jealousy
9,059	45,110	Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.	Evan Sayet	medical
4,456	21,192	I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.	Eddie Van Halen	famous
6,563	17,939	Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.	James Taylor	experience
7,558	7,765	Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.	Shia LaBeouf	business

11,066

55,851

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

positive

11,286

49,613

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

Jane Fonda

movies

8,464

37,252

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

Patrick Warburton

humor

3,202

20,925

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Vanessa Hudgens

family

1,219

32,680

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

happiness

10,732

21,653

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Laura Kightlinger

famous

3,627

21,043

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Wynonna Judd

famous

6,983

67,137

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

Jordin Sparks

technology

6,657

22,519

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Lawrence Kasdan

fear

10,033

70,277

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

Douglas Wood

trust

9,026

6,915

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

Daniel Radcliffe

best

11,284

27,656

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

gardening

10,960

19,695

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

John Clayton

faith

5,803

69,176

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson

travel

675

33,122

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

David Suzuki

health

6,737

44,748

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Nadia Comaneci

marriage

5,709

29,018

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Caroline Kennedy

good

9,890

9,662

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

Simon Mainwaring

change

6,760

44,110

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

marriage

5,535

7,320

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Peter Drucker

business

8,488

25,593

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

Jennifer Beals

friendship

6,264

69,283

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Joyce Maynard

travel

5,684

64,249

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Dr. Dre

sports

6,123

14,918

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Nicholas Stern

diet

9,732

75,170

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Charles de Lint

work

11,638

26,561

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

Zach Galifianakis

funny

2,655

48,615

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

Gina Carano

morning

48

39,721

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

knowledge

6,866

45,855

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Robin Hayes

men

6,659

62,074

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

science

6,024

8,496

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Gus Van Sant

car

7,139

9,486

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Nolan Ryan

change

5,214

70,140

Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

Gustav Heinemann

trust

6,106

13,864

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

William Law

death

8,777

36,261

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Daisaku Ikeda

hope

3,527

8,822

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Patricia Highsmith

car

8,740

23,503

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

Carnie Wilson

food

8,461

25,560

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Warren Christopher

friendship

1,629

30,371

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Carly Fiorina

government

3,019

26,760

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John F. Kennedy

future

10,664

1,999

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S. Truman

amazing

554

32,614

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Michael Landon

happiness

8,157

24,636

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

William E. Gladstone

freedom

1,627

62,863

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

society

9,327

47,669

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.

Rush Limbaugh

money

8,266

63,198

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

Emma Thompson

society

10,094

42,313

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Gabriel Byrne

life

8,191

10,305

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

communication

4,045

30,362

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Herbert Spencer

government

11,228

65,137

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

strength

4,109

59,990

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

Bill Murray

respect

11,073

33,459

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

Debbie Stabenow

health

1,371

37,393

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

imagination

7,326

43,703

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers

love

11,105

61,654

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

Temple Grandin

science

10,366

51,341

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

nature

8,673

48,185

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Larry King

morning

7,804

39,625

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

John Sergeant Wise

knowledge

8,311

37,279

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

Graham Kerr

humor

5,379

43,450

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

Mitt Romney

love

6,270

45,220

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

men

3,401

28,142

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Huxley

god

9,174

39,264

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Immanuel Kant

knowledge

6,598

55,901

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Tiger Woods

positive

4,638

57,474

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Victoria Pratt

relationship

96

42,224

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Napoleon Hill

life

8,703

4,580

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Helena Bonham Carter

art

4,418

63,271

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

John Ralston Saul

society

7,102

41,041

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

learning

8,355

30,845

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

great

7,539

52,844

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

John Lennon

peace

4,765

51,470

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato

nature

6,164

68,664

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

time

6,776

5,793

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Janelle Monae

beauty

462

38,574

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

John Key

intelligence

515

34,694

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

history

11,567

34,135

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

history

9,239

13,676

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau

death

6,937

32,696

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Donna Rice

happiness

5,209

12,334

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

Rod Stewart

dad

336

70,976

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

truth

7,028

15,103

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Theodore Roosevelt

dreams

9,716

18,426

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

failure

9,129

16,012

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

education

10,707

9,497

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

change

2,928

44,886

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

Anthony Edwards

medical

9,665

32,484

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille

happiness

8,427

3,858

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde

art

1,417

70,266

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.

Alex Campbell

trust

677

46,753

My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

Emma Stone

mom

4,741

24,510

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Theodor Adorno

freedom

9,404

9,818

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Sarah Zettel

change

10,357

57,976

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Tre Cool

relationship

2,155

4,683

Attitude is everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

attitude

11,119

32,668

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

happiness

6,323

38,933

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Cheryl Tiegs

jealousy

9,059

45,110

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

Evan Sayet

medical

4,456

21,192

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

Eddie Van Halen

famous

6,563

17,939

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

James Taylor

experience

7,558

7,765

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

Shia LaBeouf

business