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7,408	70,220	If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.	Mark Hanna	trust
4,097	44,293	Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.	Benjamin Carson	marriage
257	29,411	Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.	Victor Hugo	good
1,211	26,364	It's funny how most activists are pacifists.	Craig Bruce	funny
420	60,168	I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.	Christie Hefner	respect
8,360	31,400	There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.	Lope de Vega	great
654	17,762	Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.	Harry Browne	experience
4,379	34,741	It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.	Michael Apted	history
11,705	5,297	Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.	Adriana Lima	beauty
5,971	48,887	I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.	Jennifer Tilly	morning
9,559	18,259	I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.	Ethan Hawke	experience
442	8,561	The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.	Taylor Momsen	car
10,563	39,692	And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.	Betty Hill	knowledge
2,312	6,737	Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.	Baltasar Gracian	best
9,589	57,436	When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.	Orlando Bloom	relationship
6,253	52,144	If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.	Alex Trebek	nature
3,771	68,761	Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.	Steven Biko	time
10,253	33,382	If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.	Bernie Sanders	health
8,315	6,424	The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.	William Butler Yeats	best
7,506	1,743	Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.	Hilaire Belloc	alone
9,414	68,363	I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.	Charlie Sheen	time
11,783	30,500	Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.	Eliot Spitzer	government
491	54,995	In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.	George Orwell	politics
5,325	34,613	When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.	Kevin Costner	history
3,789	7,262	There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.	John L. Phillips	birthday
4,120	48,771	My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.	Sarah Zettel	morning
5,252	17,232	There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.	Ellen Pompeo	equality
6,422	63,329	What we do as a society is seek simple answers.	Dean Koontz	society
6,990	52,806	The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.	James Montgomery	peace
6,456	6,162	Just do what you do best.	Red Auerbach	best
9,806	66,259	Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.	Henri Frederic Amiel	sympathy
8,202	46,725	My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.	Allyson Felix	mom
1,030	56,561	Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.	John F. Kennedy	power
6,999	40,692	Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.	Arthur Schopenhauer	learning
10,877	47,716	In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.	Jerry Saltz	money
9,654	69,252	The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.	Clive Owen	travel
6,857	22,706	There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.	Arianna Huffington	fear
9,635	5,794	I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.	Clay Aiken	beauty
6,019	48,127	Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.	James Buchan	money
6,133	16,045	You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.	Dennis Miller	education
5,616	55,298	Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.	Russell Baker	politics
5,933	21,123	People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.	Megan Fox	famous
5,161	56,974	I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'	Abigail Adams	power
4,172	13,977	I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.	T. D. Jakes	death
11,501	12,694	Jenna's traveled with me they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.	Laura Bush	dad
2,502	13,984	We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.	Angela Davis	death
5,831	54,740	Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.	Bernie Taupin	poetry
1,116	28,447	God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.	Jean Claude Van Damme	god
8,626	61,572	Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.	Aleister Crowley	science
8,927	20,885	For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.	Sidney Altman	family
439	714	You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.	Tom Colicchio	age
311	18,470	Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.	Og Mandino	failure
382	50,241	Music is well said to be the speech of angels.	Thomas Carlyle	music
6,804	27,338	The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.	Freeman Dyson	future
3,887	44,776	It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.	Kendrick Meek	marriage
126	33,204	I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.	Ron Wyden	health
270	73,159	The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.	John Updike	wisdom
3,534	74,234	Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.	Sheryl Sandberg	women
11,750	17,477	Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.	Stephen Fry	experience
9,651	53,435	That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.	Hassan Nasrallah	peace
9,889	44,503	Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.	Pope Shenouda III	marriage
1,074	57,135	You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.	Black Elk	power
1,574	57,980	I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.	Bruce Willis	relationship
6,411	56,357	They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.	Jean Charest	positive
226	35,458	The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.	Yoko Ono	home
1,194	62,072	Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.	John B. S. Haldane	science
11,793	4,877	I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.	Lawrence Kasdan	attitude
11,373	37,376	The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.	William Shakespeare	imagination
7,524	63,642	Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.	Edward Bond	society
2,340	38,990	Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.	Peter Drucker	knowledge
2,321	75,685	For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.	Chris Pine	christmas
6,134	17,254	Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.	Robert Toombs	equality
6,562	1,711	Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.	A. R. Ammons	alone
3,399	52,851	Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.	Ronald Reagan	peace
4,321	57,927	A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.	Adam Levine	relationship
203	18,286	I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.	Celine Dion	experience
4,361	14,055	People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.	Taylor Caldwell	death
7,336	25,306	To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.	Barack Obama	friendship
9,030	9,155	We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.	Carl T. Rowan	change
131	57,267	No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.	Jacob Bronowski	power
4,424	35,536	I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.	Gordon Ramsay	home
5,964	30,935	Life is either a great adventure or nothing.	Helen Keller	great
11,496	63,767	Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.	John Leonard	sports
4,329	71,999	Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.	Mick Jagger	war
5,756	21,925	I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.	Martin Luther	fear
9,386	20,314	I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.	Kim Kardashian	family
1,352	70,609	The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.	Robert H. Schuller	truth
5,317	31,300	Many great actions are committed in small struggles.	Victor Hugo	great
1,349	33,657	I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.	Thomas Menino	health
3,845	53,713	The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.	Gustav Heinemann	peace
170	25,393	If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.	Michel de Montaigne	friendship
3,168	65,535	Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.	Michelle Obama	success
5,633	33,269	Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.	Ginnifer Goodwin	health
8,092	52,780	Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	peace
2,360	37,748	Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.	Terry Eagleton	imagination
6,908	65,459	Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.	Denis Waitley	success
1,548	20,439	I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.	Hugh Jackman	family
4,410	21,068	When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.	Katharine Hepburn	famous
5,862	47,829	Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.	Janice Dickinson	money
11,203	39,559	I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.	Todd Barry	knowledge

7,408

70,220

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Mark Hanna

trust

4,097

44,293

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Benjamin Carson

marriage

257

29,411

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Victor Hugo

good

1,211

26,364

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Craig Bruce

funny

420

60,168

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

Christie Hefner

respect

8,360

31,400

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Lope de Vega

great

654

17,762

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Harry Browne

experience

4,379

34,741

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Michael Apted

history

11,705

5,297

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Adriana Lima

beauty

5,971

48,887

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

Jennifer Tilly

morning

9,559

18,259

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Ethan Hawke

experience

442

8,561

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

Taylor Momsen

car

10,563

39,692

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

Betty Hill

knowledge

2,312

6,737

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Baltasar Gracian

best

9,589

57,436

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

Orlando Bloom

relationship

6,253

52,144

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Alex Trebek

nature

3,771

68,761

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Steven Biko

time

10,253

33,382

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Bernie Sanders

health

8,315

6,424

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

best

7,506

1,743

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Hilaire Belloc

alone

9,414

68,363

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Charlie Sheen

time

11,783

30,500

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Eliot Spitzer

government

491

54,995

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

George Orwell

politics

5,325

34,613

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

Kevin Costner

history

3,789

7,262

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

John L. Phillips

birthday

4,120

48,771

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

Sarah Zettel

morning

5,252

17,232

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Ellen Pompeo

equality

6,422

63,329

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Dean Koontz

society

6,990

52,806

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

James Montgomery

peace

6,456

6,162

Just do what you do best.

Red Auerbach

best

9,806

66,259

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Henri Frederic Amiel

sympathy

8,202

46,725

My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.

Allyson Felix

mom

1,030

56,561

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

power

6,999

40,692

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

learning

10,877

47,716

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.

Jerry Saltz

money

9,654

69,252

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

Clive Owen

travel

6,857

22,706

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Arianna Huffington

fear

9,635

5,794

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Clay Aiken

beauty

6,019

48,127

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

James Buchan

money

6,133

16,045

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Dennis Miller

education

5,616

55,298

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Russell Baker

politics

5,933

21,123

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Megan Fox

famous

5,161

56,974

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Abigail Adams

power

4,172

13,977

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

T. D. Jakes

death

11,501

12,694

Jenna's traveled with me they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

Laura Bush

dad

2,502

13,984

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Angela Davis

death

5,831

54,740

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin

poetry

1,116

28,447

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Jean Claude Van Damme

god

8,626

61,572

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Aleister Crowley

science

8,927

20,885

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Sidney Altman

family

439

714

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

Tom Colicchio

age

311

18,470

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

failure

382

50,241

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

music

6,804

27,338

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Freeman Dyson

future

3,887

44,776

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

Kendrick Meek

marriage

126

33,204

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Ron Wyden

health

270

73,159

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

wisdom

3,534

74,234

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

Sheryl Sandberg

women

11,750

17,477

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Stephen Fry

experience

9,651

53,435

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

Hassan Nasrallah

peace

9,889

44,503

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Pope Shenouda III

marriage

1,074

57,135

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Black Elk

power

1,574

57,980

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

Bruce Willis

relationship

6,411

56,357

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

Jean Charest

positive

226

35,458

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Yoko Ono

home

1,194

62,072

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

science

11,793

4,877

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

Lawrence Kasdan

attitude

11,373

37,376

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

imagination

7,524

63,642

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

society

2,340

38,990

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

knowledge

2,321

75,685

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

Chris Pine

christmas

6,134

17,254

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Robert Toombs

equality

6,562

1,711

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

A. R. Ammons

alone

3,399

52,851

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

peace

4,321

57,927

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

Adam Levine

relationship

203

18,286

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

Celine Dion

experience

4,361

14,055

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Taylor Caldwell

death

7,336

25,306

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Barack Obama

friendship

9,030

9,155

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan

change

131

57,267

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski

power

4,424

35,536

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Gordon Ramsay

home

5,964

30,935

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

great

11,496

63,767

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

sports

4,329

71,999

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Mick Jagger

war

5,756

21,925

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Martin Luther

fear

9,386

20,314

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

Kim Kardashian

family

1,352

70,609

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Robert H. Schuller

truth

5,317

31,300

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

great

1,349

33,657

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Thomas Menino

health

3,845

53,713

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Gustav Heinemann

peace

170

25,393

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

friendship

3,168

65,535

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Michelle Obama

success

5,633

33,269

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Ginnifer Goodwin

health

8,092

52,780

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

peace

2,360

37,748

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Terry Eagleton

imagination

6,908

65,459

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Waitley

success

1,548

20,439

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

Hugh Jackman

family

4,410

21,068

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Katharine Hepburn

famous

5,862

47,829

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

Janice Dickinson

money

11,203

39,559

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

Todd Barry

knowledge