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11,261	42,476	Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.	Zig Ziglar	life
7,976	73,335	He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.	Quintus Ennius	wisdom
1,262	34,510	In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.	Tony Blair	history
5,369	74,549	If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.	Nelson Mandela	work
6,525	55,082	Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.	Pericles	politics
2,291	73,764	The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.	Abraham Maslow	women
600	60,914	I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.	Carroll O'Connor	sad
3,561	17,352	Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.	M. Scott Peck	experience
6,669	56,878	Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.	Virginia Woolf	power
3,484	58,972	It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.	Roger Ebert	religion
1,974	70,843	When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.	Bill Copeland	truth
6,047	40,202	It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.	Lucy Powell	leadership
3,935	11,072	My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.	Aisha Tyler	cool
9,526	22,498	Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.	John Doolittle	fear
10,147	52,425	Patience is the companion of wisdom.	Saint Augustine	patience
3,071	5,655	Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.	Beth Ditto	beauty
5,984	57,075	It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.	Andrew Jackson	power
1,305	34,872	There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.	Rosalynn Carter	home
10,941	59,753	I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.	Loretta Lynn	respect
7,130	72,627	I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.	Jennifer Hudson	wedding
7,082	75,399	These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.	Ang Lee	work
7,308	74,513	Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.	Orson Scott Card	work
2,715	37,426	Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.	Albert Einstein	imagination
1,539	8,740	Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.	Michael Nutter	car
7,092	61,850	What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.	Kyle Chandler	science
10,330	66,878	Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.	Eugen Herrigel	teacher
2,878	33,765	Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.	Alexander Skarsgard	health
1,783	17,585	Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.	George Santayana	experience
7,990	65,547	Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.	Vaclav Havel	success
1,075	21,594	I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.	Franka Potente	famous
10,753	52,153	A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.	Louis Nizer	nature
5,992	8,762	I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.	Tracey Gold	car
3,471	37,394	I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.	Peter Nivio Zarlenga	imagination
8,424	19,896	The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .	Mordecai Wyatt Johnson	faith
3,744	25,715	Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.	Oscar Levant	funny
2,462	16,463	Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.	Gregory Bateson	education
11,285	72,481	And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.	Michael Haneke	war
3,330	47,612	I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.	Larry Bird	money
1,039	146	In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.	George Orwell	age
6,112	39,200	Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.	Samuel Johnson	knowledge
4,356	61,044	No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.	Julie Burchill	sad
6,903	1,257	I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.	Marie Antoinette	alone
2,020	66,179	You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.	Linda Evans	success
5,813	37,710	I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?	Jane Campion	imagination
8,313	15,996	We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	education
9,687	21,130	You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.	Ang Lee	famous
8,295	58,523	Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.	Mahatma Gandhi	religion
11,525	13,857	To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.	Liam Neeson	death
8,507	3,640	There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.	Edwin Lutyens	architecture
4,447	25,687	A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.	Yogi Berra	funny
11,017	656	What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.	Robert Browning	age
1,725	44,705	Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.	Coretta Scott King	marriage
803	54,553	I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.	Jack Prelutsky	poetry
11,554	33,120	Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.	Donald Berwick	health
547	68,879	Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.	Gillian Anderson	time
7,445	50,724	I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.	Loretta Lynn	music
3,588	42,875	Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.	Mother Teresa	love
10,382	22,019	Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.	Chauncey Depew	fear
7,908	20,960	I love seeing my family.	Mia Wasikowska	family
8,724	15,701	IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.	Edward Carpenter	dreams
671	17,535	I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.	Lou Holtz	experience
8,304	35,749	Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.	Jenny Eclair	home
1,213	6,411	Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	best
430	5,047	A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.	Ted Lindsay	attitude
9,242	48,403	When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.	Dick Gregory	morning
4,390	36,246	I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.	Shia LaBeouf	hope
816	22,782	If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.	Ben Stein	finance
980	39,950	My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.	George Andrew Olah	knowledge
2,218	64,385	In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.	Althea Gibson	sports
1,171	30,457	It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.	Stephen Harper	government
5,069	65,601	The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.	Marquis de Sade	success
10,195	11,257	I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.	Giovanni Ribisi	cool
5,169	53,784	Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.	Martha Scott	pet
3,346	51,523	To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.	Adam Smith	nature
2,616	4,618	Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.	Franz Marc	art
8,074	70,246	Disarmament requires trust.	Gustav Heinemann	trust
8,833	1,780	It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.	John McCarthy	alone
2,364	45,819	Dreaming men are haunted men.	Stephen Vincent Benet	men
10,607	24,833	Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.	Jesse Jackson	freedom
3,094	46,635	It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.	Criss Angel	mom
11,369	40,358	Leadership is an active role 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.	Bill Owens	leadership
2,366	42,173	So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.	Helen Keller	life
6,361	60,727	Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.	Izabella Scorupco	romantic
10,548	46,192	My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.	Della Reese	mom
1,450	19,452	What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.	Peter Singer	faith
5,431	26,774	I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.	Michael Jordan	future
4,095	49,223	I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.	Quentin Tarantino	movies
7,816	35,400	I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.	Lena Dunham	home
9,888	64,603	One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.	W. E. B. Du Bois	strength
8,109	40,311	There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.	Robert M. Gates	leadership
1,293	5,060	After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.	Phillip Noyce	attitude
10,564	46,286	My mom was tough.	Tiger Woods	mom
3,106	12,355	My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.	John Cusack	dad
7,029	34,364	I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.	Camille Paglia	history
4,476	20,149	As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.	Pope John Paul II	family
10,158	32,551	The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.	Emanuel Swedenborg	happiness
3,242	49,781	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	movies
2,582	65,872	Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.	Mike Ditka	success
4,147	62,007	Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.	Stephen Jay Gould	science
282	52,919	First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.	Thomas a Kempis	peace

11,261

42,476

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Zig Ziglar

life

7,976

73,335

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Quintus Ennius

wisdom

1,262

34,510

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Tony Blair

history

5,369

74,549

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

work

6,525

55,082

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles

politics

2,291

73,764

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

women

600

60,914

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Carroll O'Connor

sad

3,561

17,352

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

experience

6,669

56,878

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf

power

3,484

58,972

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

Roger Ebert

religion

1,974

70,843

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Bill Copeland

truth

6,047

40,202

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.

Lucy Powell

leadership

3,935

11,072

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Aisha Tyler

cool

9,526

22,498

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

John Doolittle

fear

10,147

52,425

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

patience

3,071

5,655

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

Beth Ditto

beauty

5,984

57,075

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

power

1,305

34,872

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Rosalynn Carter

home

10,941

59,753

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Loretta Lynn

respect

7,130

72,627

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Jennifer Hudson

wedding

7,082

75,399

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Ang Lee

work

7,308

74,513

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

work

2,715

37,426

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

imagination

1,539

8,740

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

Michael Nutter

car

7,092

61,850

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

Kyle Chandler

science

10,330

66,878

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Eugen Herrigel

teacher

2,878

33,765

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

Alexander Skarsgard

health

1,783

17,585

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

experience

7,990

65,547

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

success

1,075

21,594

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

Franka Potente

famous

10,753

52,153

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

nature

5,992

8,762

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

Tracey Gold

car

3,471

37,394

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

imagination

8,424

19,896

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

faith

3,744

25,715

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Oscar Levant

funny

2,462

16,463

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson

education

11,285

72,481

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Michael Haneke

war

3,330

47,612

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Larry Bird

money

1,039

146

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

age

6,112

39,200

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

knowledge

4,356

61,044

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Julie Burchill

sad

6,903

1,257

I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette

alone

2,020

66,179

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Linda Evans

success

5,813

37,710

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Jane Campion

imagination

8,313

15,996

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

education

9,687

21,130

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Ang Lee

famous

8,295

58,523

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

religion

11,525

13,857

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Liam Neeson

death

8,507

3,640

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Edwin Lutyens

architecture

4,447

25,687

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra

funny

11,017

656

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

age

1,725

44,705

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Coretta Scott King

marriage

803

54,553

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

poetry

11,554

33,120

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Donald Berwick

health

547

68,879

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Gillian Anderson

time

7,445

50,724

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Loretta Lynn

music

3,588

42,875

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

love

10,382

22,019

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Chauncey Depew

fear

7,908

20,960

I love seeing my family.

Mia Wasikowska

family

8,724

15,701

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Edward Carpenter

dreams

671

17,535

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

experience

8,304

35,749

Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

Jenny Eclair

home

1,213

6,411

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

best

430

5,047

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

Ted Lindsay

attitude

9,242

48,403

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Dick Gregory

morning

4,390

36,246

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

Shia LaBeouf

hope

816

22,782

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Ben Stein

finance

980

39,950

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

George Andrew Olah

knowledge

2,218

64,385

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Althea Gibson

sports

1,171

30,457

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

Stephen Harper

government

5,069

65,601

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Marquis de Sade

success

10,195

11,257

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

Giovanni Ribisi

cool

5,169

53,784

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Martha Scott

pet

3,346

51,523

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

nature

2,616

4,618

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc

art

8,074

70,246

Disarmament requires trust.

Gustav Heinemann

trust

8,833

1,780

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

John McCarthy

alone

2,364

45,819

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Stephen Vincent Benet

men

10,607

24,833

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Jesse Jackson

freedom

3,094

46,635

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Criss Angel

mom

11,369

40,358

Leadership is an active role 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

leadership

2,366

42,173

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

life

6,361

60,727

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Izabella Scorupco

romantic

10,548

46,192

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

Della Reese

mom

1,450

19,452

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Peter Singer

faith

5,431

26,774

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

Michael Jordan

future

4,095

49,223

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

Quentin Tarantino

movies

7,816

35,400

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

Lena Dunham

home

9,888

64,603

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W. E. B. Du Bois

strength

8,109

40,311

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Robert M. Gates

leadership

1,293

5,060

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

Phillip Noyce

attitude

10,564

46,286

My mom was tough.

Tiger Woods

mom

3,106

12,355

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

John Cusack

dad

7,029

34,364

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

history

4,476

20,149

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul II

family

10,158

32,551

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Emanuel Swedenborg

happiness

3,242

49,781

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

movies

2,582

65,872

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

success

4,147

62,007

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Stephen Jay Gould

science

282

52,919

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

peace