c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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8,767	1,331	I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.	Chantal Kreviazuk	alone
3,624	21,783	I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.	Etty Hillesum	fear
5,151	8,078	If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.	Chris Christie	business
3,853	45,948	Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.	Benjamin Disraeli	men
9,237	33,518	We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.	John Hutton	health
2,168	62,246	I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.	Reggie Watts	science
10,790	6,652	We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.	Samuel Butler	best
8,450	53,958	A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.	Douglas Dunn	poetry
8,430	51,833	It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.	Christopher Morley	nature
5,619	51,932	We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.	Sue Grafton	nature
1,921	59,664	If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.	Fiona Apple	respect
3,605	43,066	What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.	Pearl Bailey	love
1,153	990	We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.	Thomas B. Macaulay	age
3,642	21,626	I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.	Elizabeth Moss	famous
3,537	42,241	Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.	Winston Churchill	life
1,340	74,892	In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.	Willie Mays	work
7,663	58,323	I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.	Michael Ealy	relationship
3,817	62,884	Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.	Clint Eastwood	society
11,436	56,784	Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.	John Steinbeck	power
6,922	22,866	Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.	Donna Brazile	finance
4,426	16,409	The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.	Richard Cobden	education
10,455	46,585	Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.	Ethel Merman	mom
8,620	19,908	I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.	John Hawley	faith
11,337	28,199	A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.	Abraham Joshua Heschel	god
7,842	72,709	Wisdom begins in wonder.	Socrates	wisdom
8,367	72,215	My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.	Arlen Specter	war
10,774	19,024	God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.	Kelly Clarkson	faith
3,688	29,913	It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.	Will Rogers	government
86	62,444	It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.	Muriel Spark	smile
8,715	28,095	If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.	Joan Rivers	god
6,057	43,543	The greatest pleasure of life is love.	Euripides	love
3,454	39,049	The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.	Avicenna	knowledge
9,886	35,245	I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.	Susan Orlean	home
20	7,875	Politics is just show business for ugly people.	Jay Leno	business
4,465	61,703	There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.	Louis Pasteur	science
4,870	56,895	Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.	Elton John	power
11,729	4,808	It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.	Asa Gray	attitude
5,437	25,175	I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.	Tiffeny Milbrett	freedom
8,038	5,632	I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.	Nina Dobrev	beauty
8,883	68,607	For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.	Mitt Romney	time
3,711	74,408	We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.	Margaret Cho	women
5,072	71,456	Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.	Edward de Bono	truth
4,198	3,937	Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.	Leo Tolstoy	art
9,197	70,858	The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.	Emile Zola	truth
8,955	56,967	Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.	Jonathan Swift	power
3,139	48,845	At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.	Peter Carey	morning
4,053	6,906	America is the best half-educated country in the world.	Nicholas M. Butler	best
6,488	35,798	There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.	T. D. Jakes	home
6,693	3,253	Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.	Philip Stanhope	anger
10,942	21,935	The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.	John C. Maxwell	fear
5,399	15,190	There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.	Katy Perry	dreams
5,991	33,804	You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.	Peter Shilton	health
11,453	64,956	Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.	Gerhard Schroder	strength
4,781	11,128	I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.	Tracy Morgan	cool
8,510	23,300	The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.	Larry David	food
1,776	6,720	Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.	George W. Bush	best
10,337	27,182	And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.	Elizabeth Warren	future
11,515	16,679	States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.	Anna Lindh	education
6,879	41,415	I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.	Santigold	learning
1,381	70,644	Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.	C. S. Lewis	truth
5,091	26,644	You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.	Steve Jobs	future
3,637	70,249	Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.	Dean Inge	trust
1,571	50,667	Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead.	Conrad Aiken	music
5,613	23,056	We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.	Philip Knight	fitness
7,325	38,146	Great hopes make great men.	Thomas Fuller	inspirational
9,370	60,921	Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.	George Jean Nathan	sad
1,292	72,579	You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.	Bess Truman	wedding
7,340	37,000	If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.	William Howard Taft	humor
2,004	40,126	What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.	Paul Ryan	leadership
3,677	60,672	The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.	Don Johnson	romantic
10,813	25,550	Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.	Johann Kaspar Lavater	friendship
3,848	33,710	If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.	Kathleen Sebelius	health
8,640	11,641	Courage without conscience is a wild beast.	Robert Green Ingersoll	courage
8,163	49,348	I've choreographed all of my movies.	Jackie Chan	movies
7,770	7,683	To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.	Paul McCartney	business
11,231	12,892	I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.	David Rudisha	dad
32	36,679	You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.	Tom Waits	hope
1,434	15,341	People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.	Barbara Kingsolver	dreams
307	23,412	I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.	Giada De Laurentiis	food
5,051	63,771	Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.	Phil Jackson	sports
329	33,732	Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.	Allen Boyd	health
11,219	66,073	People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.	Chuck Norris	success
10,518	36,790	We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.	Malcolm Turnbull	hope
1,387	4,069	To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.	Elliott Erwitt	art
4,874	27,518	China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.	Paul Wolfowitz	future
6,370	47,696	The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.	Newt Gingrich	money
5,267	58,426	Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.	Henry David Thoreau	religion
9,097	70,350	Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.	Walter Gilbert	trust
4,295	19,332	The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.	Charles Stanley	faith
6,195	40,121	Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.	Donald Rumsfeld	leadership
1,373	62,614	Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.	Aishwarya Rai	smile
11,695	44,892	If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.	Ralph Merkle	medical
241	30,776	In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.	Ted Nelson	graduation
3,562	33,918	I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.	Wendell Berry	history
10,602	16,178	Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.	Rita Mae Brown	education
9,401	25,361	Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.	Jean de La Fontaine	friendship
3,786	31,438	I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.	Arnold Schwarzenegger	great
5,137	74,265	I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.	Carol P. Christ	women
6,364	37,844	Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.	Mary Wesley	imagination
4,716	74,906	A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.	Hazrat Inayat Khan	work

8,767

1,331

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Chantal Kreviazuk

alone

3,624

21,783

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Etty Hillesum

fear

5,151

8,078

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

Chris Christie

business

3,853

45,948

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

men

9,237

33,518

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.

John Hutton

health

2,168

62,246

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Reggie Watts

science

10,790

6,652

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

best

8,450

53,958

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

poetry

8,430

51,833

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

nature

5,619

51,932

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

nature

1,921

59,664

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Fiona Apple

respect

3,605

43,066

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

love

1,153

990

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas B. Macaulay

age

3,642

21,626

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

Elizabeth Moss

famous

3,537

42,241

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

life

1,340

74,892

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Willie Mays

work

7,663

58,323

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Michael Ealy

relationship

3,817

62,884

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Clint Eastwood

society

11,436

56,784

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

power

6,922

22,866

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Donna Brazile

finance

4,426

16,409

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Richard Cobden

education

10,455

46,585

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Ethel Merman

mom

8,620

19,908

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

John Hawley

faith

11,337

28,199

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

god

7,842

72,709

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

wisdom

8,367

72,215

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Arlen Specter

war

10,774

19,024

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Kelly Clarkson

faith

3,688

29,913

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Will Rogers

government

86

62,444

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Muriel Spark

smile

8,715

28,095

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

god

6,057

43,543

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

love

3,454

39,049

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Avicenna

knowledge

9,886

35,245

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

Susan Orlean

home

20

7,875

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Jay Leno

business

4,465

61,703

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

science

4,870

56,895

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

power

11,729

4,808

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

Asa Gray

attitude

5,437

25,175

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Tiffeny Milbrett

freedom

8,038

5,632

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Nina Dobrev

beauty

8,883

68,607

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

Mitt Romney

time

3,711

74,408

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

Margaret Cho

women

5,072

71,456

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Edward de Bono

truth

4,198

3,937

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

art

9,197

70,858

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Emile Zola

truth

8,955

56,967

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

power

3,139

48,845

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

Peter Carey

morning

4,053

6,906

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Nicholas M. Butler

best

6,488

35,798

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

T. D. Jakes

home

6,693

3,253

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Philip Stanhope

anger

10,942

21,935

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

John C. Maxwell

fear

5,399

15,190

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

Katy Perry

dreams

5,991

33,804

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Peter Shilton

health

11,453

64,956

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

Gerhard Schroder

strength

4,781

11,128

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Tracy Morgan

cool

8,510

23,300

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Larry David

food

1,776

6,720

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

George W. Bush

best

10,337

27,182

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

future

11,515

16,679

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

Anna Lindh

education

6,879

41,415

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

Santigold

learning

1,381

70,644

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

truth

5,091

26,644

You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

future

3,637

70,249

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Dean Inge

trust

1,571

50,667

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Conrad Aiken

music

5,613

23,056

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Philip Knight

fitness

7,325

38,146

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

inspirational

9,370

60,921

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

sad

1,292

72,579

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

Bess Truman

wedding

7,340

37,000

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

humor

2,004

40,126

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Paul Ryan

leadership

3,677

60,672

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Don Johnson

romantic

10,813

25,550

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

friendship

3,848

33,710

If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.

Kathleen Sebelius

health

8,640

11,641

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

courage

8,163

49,348

I've choreographed all of my movies.

Jackie Chan

movies

7,770

7,683

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

Paul McCartney

business

11,231

12,892

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

David Rudisha

dad

32

36,679

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Tom Waits

hope

1,434

15,341

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

dreams

307

23,412

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

Giada De Laurentiis

food

5,051

63,771

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

Phil Jackson

sports

329

33,732

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Allen Boyd

health

11,219

66,073

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Chuck Norris

success

10,518

36,790

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

Malcolm Turnbull

hope

1,387

4,069

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

art

4,874

27,518

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

Paul Wolfowitz

future

6,370

47,696

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Newt Gingrich

money

5,267

58,426

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

religion

9,097

70,350

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Walter Gilbert

trust

4,295

19,332

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Charles Stanley

faith

6,195

40,121

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

leadership

1,373

62,614

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Aishwarya Rai

smile

11,695

44,892

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Ralph Merkle

medical

241

30,776

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

graduation

3,562

33,918

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

history

10,602

16,178

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Rita Mae Brown

education

9,401

25,361

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

friendship

3,786

31,438

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

great

5,137

74,265

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol P. Christ

women

6,364

37,844

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Mary Wesley

imagination

4,716

74,906

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

work