c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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813	30,747	I have actually five honorary degrees.	Katherine Dunham	graduation
3,988	60,556	The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.	Gus Van Sant	romantic
806	10,447	Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.	Katherine Jenkins	computers
7,355	71,989	First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.	Norman Schwarzkopf	war
10,350	57,194	There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.	Susan Orlean	power
11,725	5,879	I love my beauty. It's not my fault.	Valentino Garavani	beauty
10,364	33,075	Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.	Quentin Crisp	health
6,213	74,173	Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.	Brigitte Bardot	women
1,086	57,164	Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.	Marian Wright Edelman	power
960	1,569	Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.	Anna Nicole Smith	alone
9,006	395	Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?	Desiderius Erasmus	age
2,823	14,569	In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.	Charles Foster Bass	design
4,568	59,385	Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.	Bernice Johnson Reagon	religion
9,544	45,964	Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.	Epictetus	men
4,207	42,252	I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.	Marilyn Monroe	life
2,341	39,604	Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.	Joshua Foer	knowledge
11,159	55,109	It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.	John Hughes	politics
2,691	27,894	There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.	Blaise Pascal	god
4,283	43,145	There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.	Washington Irving	love
4,944	72,565	People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.	Sinead O'Connor	wedding
3,712	7,358	Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.	Tom Peters	business
7,096	51,316	Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.	Annie Leibovitz	nature
9,236	37,073	The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.	Umberto Eco	humor
4,354	65,711	For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.	Shania Twain	success
1,071	6,231	When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.	Helen Keller	best
6,179	54,616	I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.	James Dickey	poetry
5,211	73,565	The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.	Holly Near	women
7,243	67,159	In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.	Dean Kamen	technology
1,013	20,967	With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.	Ginnifer Goodwin	family
3,682	21,155	I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.	Eric Clapton	famous
11,572	60,347	I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.	Ed Miliband	respect
6,573	19,026	Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.	Helen Keller	faith
1,780	48,792	Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.	Francis Parkman	morning
3,220	46,828	I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.	Trisha Yearwood	mom
6,798	5,401	In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.	Vladimir Kramnik	beauty
3,437	36,668	I would hope everyone would be a feminist.	Mia Wasikowska	hope
3,267	37,293	I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.	Janet Evanovich	humor
2,879	11,300	Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.	Charlie Simpson	cool
2,539	65,407	One man cannot practice many arts with success.	Plato	success
8,910	2,690	I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.	Anselm Kiefer	amazing
3,336	68,233	This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.	Winston Churchill	time
3,099	10,461	The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.	John Hawkes	computers
6,701	47,116	My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.	Amy Jo Johnson	mom
302	16,574	The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.	James S. Coleman	education
3,323	25,999	I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.	Taylor Swift	funny
8,708	4,995	I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.	Diane Wakoski	attitude
4,846	20,999	My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.	Robert Griffin III	family
6,212	18,763	How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.	Harold Ramis	failure
4,048	72,099	War is what happens when language fails.	Margaret Atwood	war
8,089	37,355	Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.	Emmett Kelly	humor
4,815	17,099	A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.	Friedrich August von Hayek	equality
4,704	59,656	I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.	Stephen Fry	respect
1,836	41,538	The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.	Christopher Darden	legal
6,427	36,426	I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.	Lena Dunham	hope
2,950	13,088	Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.	Mae West	dating
2,931	4,231	It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.	Ezra Pound	art
1,925	28,346	The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.	Blaise Pascal	god
1,691	45,152	Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?	Confucius	men
6,275	21,645	Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.	Pauly Shore	famous
10,356	23,625	I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.	Wilbur Smith	food
11,282	51,482	Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.	Sai Baba	nature
11,821	10,777	The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.	Mark Ruffalo	cool
7,065	62,185	So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.	Steve Case	science
7,521	23,280	I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.	Drew Barrymore	food
10,827	55,157	The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.	John Cornyn	politics
735	67,176	World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.	Barry Commoner	technology
8,329	27,271	What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?	Thomas a Kempis	future
7,391	56,439	It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.	Epicurus	power
10,394	27,134	While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.	John Podhoretz	future
2,014	34,423	When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.	Robert Anton Wilson	history
3,855	7,347	The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.	Ambrose Bierce	business
4,184	48,192	If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.	Lord Acton	morning
4,091	31,373	History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.	Thomas Carlyle	great
175	29,362	Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.	Mitt Romney	good
10,769	634	The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'	Daniel Craig	age
4,660	19,707	I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.	Huston Smith	faith
4,854	58,747	God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.	Desmond Tutu	religion
2,121	64,929	Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.	Andrew Shue	strength
11,424	69,023	Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	time
10,331	71,722	All war is based on deception.	Sun Tzu	war
1,172	27,272	Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.	Carol Bellamy	future
7,948	22,159	To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.	Peter McWilliams	fear
4,490	45,301	Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.	Abraham Lincoln	men
11,269	40,066	The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	leadership
7,740	43,248	I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.	Thomas Paine	love
1,330	19,184	My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.	Barack Obama	faith
469	14,264	Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.	Suzanne Fields	death
3,459	19,079	I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.	Javier Bardem	faith
9,680	29,719	A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.	Thomas Jefferson	government
478	1,065	Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.	Pearl S. Buck	alone
1,978	14,138	The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.	Stanislav Grof	death
11,352	47,179	If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.	J. Paul Getty	money
6,379	33,890	Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.	Christopher Columbus	history
7,418	69,541	We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.	Nadia Comaneci	travel
11,596	42,837	It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.	Plato	life
11,495	14,714	Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.	John Langdon	design
8,956	36,697	I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.	Steve Yzerman	hope
4,279	38,832	Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.	Shirley Hazzard	intelligence
8,826	55,887	Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.	Cuba Gooding, Jr.	positive
2,409	39,922	Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.	Sidney Hook	knowledge

813

30,747

I have actually five honorary degrees.

Katherine Dunham

graduation

3,988

60,556

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

Gus Van Sant

romantic

806

10,447

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

Katherine Jenkins

computers

7,355

71,989

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

Norman Schwarzkopf

war

10,350

57,194

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Susan Orlean

power

11,725

5,879

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Valentino Garavani

beauty

10,364

33,075

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Quentin Crisp

health

6,213

74,173

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Brigitte Bardot

women

1,086

57,164

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Marian Wright Edelman

power

960

1,569

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

Anna Nicole Smith

alone

9,006

395

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Desiderius Erasmus

age

2,823

14,569

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

Charles Foster Bass

design

4,568

59,385

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

religion

9,544

45,964

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

men

4,207

42,252

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Marilyn Monroe

life

2,341

39,604

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Joshua Foer

knowledge

11,159

55,109

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

John Hughes

politics

2,691

27,894

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Blaise Pascal

god

4,283

43,145

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

love

4,944

72,565

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

Sinead O'Connor

wedding

3,712

7,358

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

business

7,096

51,316

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

nature

9,236

37,073

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

humor

4,354

65,711

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

Shania Twain

success

1,071

6,231

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

best

6,179

54,616

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

James Dickey

poetry

5,211

73,565

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Holly Near

women

7,243

67,159

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dean Kamen

technology

1,013

20,967

With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

Ginnifer Goodwin

family

3,682

21,155

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

Eric Clapton

famous

11,572

60,347

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Ed Miliband

respect

6,573

19,026

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller

faith

1,780

48,792

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

morning

3,220

46,828

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

Trisha Yearwood

mom

6,798

5,401

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Vladimir Kramnik

beauty

3,437

36,668

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Mia Wasikowska

hope

3,267

37,293

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

Janet Evanovich

humor

2,879

11,300

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

Charlie Simpson

cool

2,539

65,407

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Plato

success

8,910

2,690

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

Anselm Kiefer

amazing

3,336

68,233

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

time

3,099

10,461

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

John Hawkes

computers

6,701

47,116

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

Amy Jo Johnson

mom

302

16,574

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

James S. Coleman

education

3,323

25,999

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

Taylor Swift

funny

8,708

4,995

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

attitude

4,846

20,999

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

Robert Griffin III

family

6,212

18,763

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Harold Ramis

failure

4,048

72,099

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

war

8,089

37,355

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Emmett Kelly

humor

4,815

17,099

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Friedrich August von Hayek

equality

4,704

59,656

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Stephen Fry

respect

1,836

41,538

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden

legal

6,427

36,426

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

Lena Dunham

hope

2,950

13,088

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Mae West

dating

2,931

4,231

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Ezra Pound

art

1,925

28,346

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Blaise Pascal

god

1,691

45,152

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

men

6,275

21,645

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

Pauly Shore

famous

10,356

23,625

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

Wilbur Smith

food

11,282

51,482

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

Sai Baba

nature

11,821

10,777

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Mark Ruffalo

cool

7,065

62,185

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Steve Case

science

7,521

23,280

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

Drew Barrymore

food

10,827

55,157

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn

politics

735

67,176

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Barry Commoner

technology

8,329

27,271

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Thomas a Kempis

future

7,391

56,439

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

power

10,394

27,134

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

John Podhoretz

future

2,014

34,423

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Robert Anton Wilson

history

3,855

7,347

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

business

4,184

48,192

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Lord Acton

morning

4,091

31,373

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

great

175

29,362

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Mitt Romney

good

10,769

634

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

Daniel Craig

age

4,660

19,707

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Huston Smith

faith

4,854

58,747

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Desmond Tutu

religion

2,121

64,929

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Andrew Shue

strength

11,424

69,023

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

time

10,331

71,722

All war is based on deception.

Sun Tzu

war

1,172

27,272

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

Carol Bellamy

future

7,948

22,159

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Peter McWilliams

fear

4,490

45,301

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

men

11,269

40,066

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

leadership

7,740

43,248

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

love

1,330

19,184

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Barack Obama

faith

469

14,264

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

Suzanne Fields

death

3,459

19,079

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Javier Bardem

faith

9,680

29,719

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Thomas Jefferson

government

478

1,065

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

alone

1,978

14,138

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Stanislav Grof

death

11,352

47,179

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

J. Paul Getty

money

6,379

33,890

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

history

7,418

69,541

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

Nadia Comaneci

travel

11,596

42,837

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

life

11,495

14,714

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon

design

8,956

36,697

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

Steve Yzerman

hope

4,279

38,832

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

intelligence

8,826

55,887

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

positive

2,409

39,922

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook

knowledge