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3,194	51,200	I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.	Steven Patrick Morrissey	music
11,116	75,779	The average American is nothing if not patriotic.	Herbert Croly	memorialday
2,389	39,689	The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.	Seth Godin	knowledge
11,301	13,601	My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.	Huey Newton	death
3,742	24,770	I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.	Anna Quindlen	freedom
3,816	28,245	The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.	Emmet Fox	god
8,401	75,751	Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.	Conrad Hall	fathersday
3,392	56,183	I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!	Jenny Agutter	positive
9,528	70,816	One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.	Malcolm Muggeridge	truth
5,354	5,660	The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.	George Sand	beauty
11,023	24,447	If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.	Oliver Wendell Holmes	freedom
5,107	34,710	More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.	John Hodgman	history
10,678	44,356	There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.	Alexander Theroux	marriage
6,587	68,269	If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.	William Shakespeare	time
6,002	33,329	By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.	Dan Lipinski	health
6,531	30,029	Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.	George W. Bush	government
9,412	21,296	The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.	Graham Norton	famous
5,924	14,702	The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.	Kenneth R. Miller	design
3,184	58,577	No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.	Abdul Kalam	religion
3,509	2,097	Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.	Conan O'Brien	amazing
10,588	6,600	Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.	Samuel Johnson	best
6,512	21,386	I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.	Gabrielle Reece	famous
1,924	17,323	Experience is the teacher of all things.	Julius Caesar	experience
5,085	54,971	I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.	Winston Churchill	politics
11,298	67,854	The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.	David Wilkerson	teen
8,638	12,617	Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.	Lisa Loeb	dad
1,546	65,634	Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.	Henri Frederic Amiel	success
576	11,369	Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.	Al Stewart	cool
5,364	67,431	Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.	Bob Graham	technology
5,432	26,799	We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.	Barack Obama	future
9,347	23,546	Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.	Tom Vilsack	food
7,880	53,634	Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.	Kenichi Fukui	peace
6,954	3,185	I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.	Tatum O'Neal	anger
8,645	69,737	A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.	Harold MacMillan	trust
10,246	35,856	We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	hope
10,324	27,961	I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.	Francis of Assisi	god
1,610	34,244	Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.	Tom Waits	history
10,270	61,532	If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?	Carl Sagan	science
4,238	30,725	I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.	Fred Allen	graduation
9,887	65,734	Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.	Sylvester Stallone	success
324	14,302	Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.	Stephen Gardiner	design
3,507	52,272	My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.	Marion Jones	parenting
415	7,247	Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.	Phylicia Rashad	birthday
8,844	14,838	I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.	Leona Lewis	diet
5,714	43,365	Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.	Khalil Gibran	love
7,886	3,786	I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.	Roy Lichtenstein	art
2,634	4,859	I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.	Yani Tseng	attitude
5,199	19,122	Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.	Bruce Lee	faith
1,319	44,526	I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.	Mika Brzezinski	marriage
1,141	72,786	Wisdom is found only in truth.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	wisdom
903	52,418	I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.	Lao Tzu	patience
4,531	43,897	Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.	Erma Bombeck	marriage
10,673	29,003	A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.	Friedrich Nietzsche	good
1,696	60,133	I have a wonderful respect for old people.	Craig Kilborn	respect
261	13,832	When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.	Dennis Quaid	death
98	5,010	I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.	Rachael Taylor	attitude
4,393	3,205	I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.	Yancy Butler	anger
2,725	71,971	War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.	Desiderius Erasmus	war
1,533	44,129	A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.	Andre Maurois	marriage
4,039	26,052	I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.	Katy Perry	funny
5,524	63,452	The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.	John Zorn	society
4,875	16,043	Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.	Clarence Thomas	education
7,782	49,319	My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'	Henry Louis Gates	movies
5,237	44,399	While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.	John Boehner	marriage
3,188	44,361	Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.	Douglas William Jerrold	marriage
8,986	24,825	Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.	James A. Garfield	freedom
8,141	39,902	With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.	Sonny Bono	knowledge
4,769	1,359	If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.	Lisa Marie Presley	alone
2,580	11,800	What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.	Rand Paul	courage
9,473	54,112	There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.	Jean de la Bruyere	poetry
11,070	50,138	Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.	Albert Camus	movingon
66	9,648	For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.	John Hawkes	change
7,977	10,999	People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.	Wiz Khalifa	cool
2,558	65,723	People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.	Herbert Spencer	success
6,533	33,456	We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.	George Weinberg	health
685	32,497	I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.	Taylor Caldwell	happiness
1,155	73,900	The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.	Pope Benedict XVI	women
2,596	68,438	Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.	Marcus Aurelius	time
7,653	7,203	Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.	Sloane Crosley	birthday
4,303	52,310	Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.	Jennifer Aniston	parenting
5,080	15,206	I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.	J. K. Rowling	dreams
4,818	45,445	It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.	Norman Schwarzkopf	men
8,209	14,039	Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.	Giacomo Casanova	death
7,852	26,736	Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.	John F. Kennedy	future
1,422	61,698	God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.	Pat Robertson	science
8,612	38,184	Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.	David Cameron	inspirational
11,339	56,688	The power of imagination makes us infinite.	John Muir	power
10,511	63,673	Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.	Kofi Annan	society
5,974	69,687	It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.	James Houston	travel
4,538	37,599	You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.	Jerry Gillies	imagination
9,058	55,533	People feel politics isn't about their lives.	David Miliband	politics
8,246	31,884	Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.	Bertrand Russell	happiness
771	62,235	It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.	Laurel Clark	science
4,512	4,553	Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.	Earl Wilson	art
1,146	2,205	The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.	Christy Turlington	amazing
9,786	3,077	All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.	Sallust	anger
8,129	50,412	Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.	Amanda Seyfried	music
1,643	40,945	The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.	Samuel Smiles	learning
1,038	70,594	Adversity is the first path to truth.	Lord Byron	truth
9,947	40,925	I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.	Joseph P. Kennedy	learning

3,194

51,200

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

music

11,116

75,779

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly

memorialday

2,389

39,689

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

Seth Godin

knowledge

11,301

13,601

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Huey Newton

death

3,742

24,770

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Anna Quindlen

freedom

3,816

28,245

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Emmet Fox

god

8,401

75,751

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Conrad Hall

fathersday

3,392

56,183

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

Jenny Agutter

positive

9,528

70,816

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Malcolm Muggeridge

truth

5,354

5,660

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

George Sand

beauty

11,023

24,447

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

freedom

5,107

34,710

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

John Hodgman

history

10,678

44,356

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Alexander Theroux

marriage

6,587

68,269

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

William Shakespeare

time

6,002

33,329

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

Dan Lipinski

health

6,531

30,029

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

George W. Bush

government

9,412

21,296

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

Graham Norton

famous

5,924

14,702

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

Kenneth R. Miller

design

3,184

58,577

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Abdul Kalam

religion

3,509

2,097

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

amazing

10,588

6,600

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

best

6,512

21,386

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Gabrielle Reece

famous

1,924

17,323

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar

experience

5,085

54,971

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

politics

11,298

67,854

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

David Wilkerson

teen

8,638

12,617

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.

Lisa Loeb

dad

1,546

65,634

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

success

576

11,369

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Al Stewart

cool

5,364

67,431

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

Bob Graham

technology

5,432

26,799

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Barack Obama

future

9,347

23,546

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

Tom Vilsack

food

7,880

53,634

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

Kenichi Fukui

peace

6,954

3,185

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Tatum O'Neal

anger

8,645

69,737

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

trust

10,246

35,856

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

hope

10,324

27,961

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi

god

1,610

34,244

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

history

10,270

61,532

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

science

4,238

30,725

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Fred Allen

graduation

9,887

65,734

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

success

324

14,302

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

design

3,507

52,272

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Marion Jones

parenting

415

7,247

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

Phylicia Rashad

birthday

8,844

14,838

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

Leona Lewis

diet

5,714

43,365

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Khalil Gibran

love

7,886

3,786

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Roy Lichtenstein

art

2,634

4,859

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

Yani Tseng

attitude

5,199

19,122

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

faith

1,319

44,526

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Mika Brzezinski

marriage

1,141

72,786

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

wisdom

903

52,418

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu

patience

4,531

43,897

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Erma Bombeck

marriage

10,673

29,003

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

good

1,696

60,133

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Craig Kilborn

respect

261

13,832

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Dennis Quaid

death

98

5,010

I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.

Rachael Taylor

attitude

4,393

3,205

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Yancy Butler

anger

2,725

71,971

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Desiderius Erasmus

war

1,533

44,129

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Andre Maurois

marriage

4,039

26,052

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Katy Perry

funny

5,524

63,452

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

John Zorn

society

4,875

16,043

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas

education

7,782

49,319

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

Henry Louis Gates

movies

5,237

44,399

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

John Boehner

marriage

3,188

44,361

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Douglas William Jerrold

marriage

8,986

24,825

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

freedom

8,141

39,902

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

Sonny Bono

knowledge

4,769

1,359

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

Lisa Marie Presley

alone

2,580

11,800

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Rand Paul

courage

9,473

54,112

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

poetry

11,070

50,138

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus

movingon

66

9,648

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

John Hawkes

change

7,977

10,999

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

Wiz Khalifa

cool

2,558

65,723

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Herbert Spencer

success

6,533

33,456

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

George Weinberg

health

685

32,497

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Taylor Caldwell

happiness

1,155

73,900

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

women

2,596

68,438

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

time

7,653

7,203

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

birthday

4,303

52,310

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Jennifer Aniston

parenting

5,080

15,206

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

J. K. Rowling

dreams

4,818

45,445

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Norman Schwarzkopf

men

8,209

14,039

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Giacomo Casanova

death

7,852

26,736

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

future

1,422

61,698

God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Pat Robertson

science

8,612

38,184

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

inspirational

11,339

56,688

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

power

10,511

63,673

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

society

5,974

69,687

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

James Houston

travel

4,538

37,599

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Jerry Gillies

imagination

9,058

55,533

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

David Miliband

politics

8,246

31,884

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

happiness

771

62,235

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

Laurel Clark

science

4,512

4,553

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Earl Wilson

art

1,146

2,205

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

Christy Turlington

amazing

9,786

3,077

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Sallust

anger

8,129

50,412

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

Amanda Seyfried

music

1,643

40,945

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Smiles

learning

1,038

70,594

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

truth

9,947

40,925

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Joseph P. Kennedy

learning