c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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6,474	1,807	European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.	John Bruton	alone
4,228	65,701	I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.	Katy Perry	success
8,899	24,294	Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.	Kevyn Aucoin	freedom
10,249	14,792	If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.	Salma Hayek	diet
3,557	43,321	Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.	Wayne Dyer	love
6,476	5,760	I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.	Faith Hill	beauty
3,647	69,068	Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?	Honore de Balzac	time
2,330	19,520	Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.	J. C. Watts	faith
917	42,698	If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.	Napoleon Bonaparte	life
371	74,369	What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.	Clara Zetkin	women
6,746	9,625	I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.	Shania Twain	change
10,826	13,942	People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.	Jessica Simpson	death
4,646	65,972	I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.	Bear Bryant	success
11,498	36,846	Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.	Peter Ustinov	humor
2,611	38,430	There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.	Auguste Rodin	intelligence
3,737	35,591	I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.	Rachel Weisz	home
11,388	50,044	It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?	Jean Claude Van Damme	movies
2,125	75,401	I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.	Ang Lee	work
9,593	19,362	Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.	Christopher Hitchens	faith
914	75,394	Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.	Steve Wozniak	work
3,497	44,794	It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.	Joey Santiago	marriage
1,158	19,611	I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.	Willie Stargell	faith
3,415	36,816	I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.	Jan Brewer	hope
9,978	44,350	I'm all for same-sex marriage.	Tori Spelling	marriage
10,000	47,031	I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.	Dave Franco	mom
9,160	7,731	The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.	Taylor Swift	business
5,298	55,215	The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.	Glenn Beck	politics
2,564	8,464	I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.	Ben Stein	car
9,274	67,780	Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.	Jonathan Potter	technology
10,329	17,095	Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.	Erich Fromm	equality
7,212	569	But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.	Tom Hanks	age
9,418	54,754	Poetry is a sort of homecoming.	Paul Celan	poetry
2,647	24,920	I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.	Jennifer Garner	freedom
9,014	49,075	Never complain and never explain.	Benjamin Disraeli	motivational
3,108	7,415	Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.	Paul Tournier	business
6,009	28,698	I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	god
7,573	32,959	Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.	William Hazlitt	health
2,683	41,779	To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.	Jerry O'Connell	legal
2,839	14,428	When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.	Carlos Ghosn	design
5,517	35,463	And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.	Chris Christie	home
5,075	23,418	In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.	Wangari Maathai	food
6,301	43,181	If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.	Khalil Gibran	love
11,396	9,526	I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.	Erica Jong	change
4,007	72,306	The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.	John Foster Dulles	war
1,372	58,355	Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.	Paul Henderson	relationship
8,036	54,186	I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.	Russell Simmons	poetry
1,289	74,703	Change yourself and your work will seem different.	Norman Vincent Peale	work
1,096	6,711	Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.	Virginia Woolf	best
1,472	45,730	It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.	Gertrude Stein	men
1,754	22,837	In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.	William Greider	finance
8,300	13,665	I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.	Douglas MacArthur	death
8,699	1,354	If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.	Alicia Keys	alone
3,322	16,892	Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.	Christopher Alexander	environmental
6,979	31,660	Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.	Adam Ant	great
1,332	69,352	People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.	Dan Lipinski	travel
4,250	63,121	Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.	Daniel Radcliffe	society
4,324	61,413	Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.	Rene Descartes	science
10,882	29,418	Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.	e. e. cummings	good
6,865	6,951	Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.	Marian Wright Edelman	best
11,656	3,689	Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.	Fran Lebowitz	art
7,215	49,899	In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.	Wallace Shawn	movies
2,496	3,873	Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	art
1,276	49,200	Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.	F. Scott Fitzgerald	movies
8,248	20,365	Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.	Gus Van Sant	family
10,392	51,875	It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.	David Bailey	nature
4,248	73,967	All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.	Jeff Sessions	women
6,738	46,791	But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.	Vanessa Carlton	mom
5,042	7,059	Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.	Nicolas Chamfort	best
5,537	38,912	Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.	Francois de La Rochefoucauld	jealousy
10,342	31,742	I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.	Chief Joseph	great
2,391	19,065	Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.	D. Elton Trueblood	faith
6,039	63,446	I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.	Mary Douglas	society
7,854	72,454	I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.	Sharon Stone	war
5,162	15,432	So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.	Rick Baker	dreams
4,255	4,861	My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.	Donny Osmond	attitude
1,174	43,387	Love is not consolation. It is light.	Friedrich Nietzsche	love
4,252	8,768	I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.	Rodney Atkins	car
1,398	60,058	Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.	Bill O'Reilly	respect
1,660	46,882	My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.	Zosia Mamet	mom
3,278	43,970	Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.	Herbert Spencer	marriage
8,176	56,054	Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.	Gil Scott-Heron	positive
8,237	4,222	The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.	Edward Hopper	art
10,897	14,746	You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.	Mike Ditka	diet
5,013	4,776	You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.	Don Rickles	attitude
11,243	73,501	Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.	Amelia Earhart	women
10,922	49,174	If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.	Dario Argento	movies
3,923	74,902	To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.	Carl Sandburg	work
7,970	20,113	I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.	Anthony Anderson	family
6,552	4,273	All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.	Jerry Saltz	art
2,687	70,423	I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.	Christopher Gadsden	trust
6,444	4,376	The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.	Gustave Flaubert	art
3,010	57,709	That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.	Genevieve Gorder	relationship
573	53,357	I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.	Studs Terkel	peace
9,542	11,507	Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.	Billy Graham	courage
1,445	65,887	Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.	Jesse Jackson	success
5,378	63,361	What is a society without a heroic dimension?	Jean Baudrillard	society
11,626	32,240	You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.	Brad Garrett	happiness
2,862	25,698	Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.	Ronald Reagan	funny
10,944	31,044	A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.	George Bernard Shaw	great
3,572	45,178	Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.	Niccolo Machiavelli	men

6,474

1,807

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

John Bruton

alone

4,228

65,701

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

Katy Perry

success

8,899

24,294

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin

freedom

10,249

14,792

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Salma Hayek

diet

3,557

43,321

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Wayne Dyer

love

6,476

5,760

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Faith Hill

beauty

3,647

69,068

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

time

2,330

19,520

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

J. C. Watts

faith

917

42,698

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

life

371

74,369

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Clara Zetkin

women

6,746

9,625

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Shania Twain

change

10,826

13,942

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Jessica Simpson

death

4,646

65,972

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

Bear Bryant

success

11,498

36,846

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

humor

2,611

38,430

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Auguste Rodin

intelligence

3,737

35,591

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

Rachel Weisz

home

11,388

50,044

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

Jean Claude Van Damme

movies

2,125

75,401

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Ang Lee

work

9,593

19,362

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Christopher Hitchens

faith

914

75,394

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Steve Wozniak

work

3,497

44,794

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

Joey Santiago

marriage

1,158

19,611

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

Willie Stargell

faith

3,415

36,816

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

Jan Brewer

hope

9,978

44,350

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

Tori Spelling

marriage

10,000

47,031

I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

Dave Franco

mom

9,160

7,731

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Taylor Swift

business

5,298

55,215

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

Glenn Beck

politics

2,564

8,464

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

Ben Stein

car

9,274

67,780

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.

Jonathan Potter

technology

10,329

17,095

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Erich Fromm

equality

7,212

569

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Tom Hanks

age

9,418

54,754

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Paul Celan

poetry

2,647

24,920

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

Jennifer Garner

freedom

9,014

49,075

Never complain and never explain.

Benjamin Disraeli

motivational

3,108

7,415

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Paul Tournier

business

6,009

28,698

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

god

7,573

32,959

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

William Hazlitt

health

2,683

41,779

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

Jerry O'Connell

legal

2,839

14,428

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

Carlos Ghosn

design

5,517

35,463

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

Chris Christie

home

5,075

23,418

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai

food

6,301

43,181

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

love

11,396

9,526

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Erica Jong

change

4,007

72,306

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

war

1,372

58,355

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Paul Henderson

relationship

8,036

54,186

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

poetry

1,289

74,703

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Norman Vincent Peale

work

1,096

6,711

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Virginia Woolf

best

1,472

45,730

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

men

1,754

22,837

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

William Greider

finance

8,300

13,665

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur

death

8,699

1,354

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Alicia Keys

alone

3,322

16,892

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Christopher Alexander

environmental

6,979

31,660

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Adam Ant

great

1,332

69,352

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Dan Lipinski

travel

4,250

63,121

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

Daniel Radcliffe

society

4,324

61,413

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

science

10,882

29,418

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

e. e. cummings

good

6,865

6,951

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

best

11,656

3,689

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Fran Lebowitz

art

7,215

49,899

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Wallace Shawn

movies

2,496

3,873

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

art

1,276

49,200

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

movies

8,248

20,365

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Gus Van Sant

family

10,392

51,875

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

David Bailey

nature

4,248

73,967

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

Jeff Sessions

women

6,738

46,791

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

Vanessa Carlton

mom

5,042

7,059

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Nicolas Chamfort

best

5,537

38,912

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

jealousy

10,342

31,742

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph

great

2,391

19,065

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

faith

6,039

63,446

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Mary Douglas

society

7,854

72,454

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Sharon Stone

war

5,162

15,432

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

Rick Baker

dreams

4,255

4,861

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

Donny Osmond

attitude

1,174

43,387

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love

4,252

8,768

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

Rodney Atkins

car

1,398

60,058

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Bill O'Reilly

respect

1,660

46,882

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

Zosia Mamet

mom

3,278

43,970

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Herbert Spencer

marriage

8,176

56,054

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

Gil Scott-Heron

positive

8,237

4,222

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Edward Hopper

art

10,897

14,746

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

Mike Ditka

diet

5,013

4,776

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Don Rickles

attitude

11,243

73,501

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

women

10,922

49,174

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Dario Argento

movies

3,923

74,902

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

work

7,970

20,113

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anthony Anderson

family

6,552

4,273

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Jerry Saltz

art

2,687

70,423

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

Christopher Gadsden

trust

6,444

4,376

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert

art

3,010

57,709

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Genevieve Gorder

relationship

573

53,357

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Studs Terkel

peace

9,542

11,507

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

courage

1,445

65,887

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Jesse Jackson

success

5,378

63,361

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Jean Baudrillard

society

11,626

32,240

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Brad Garrett

happiness

2,862

25,698

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Ronald Reagan

funny

10,944

31,044

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

great

3,572

45,178

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Niccolo Machiavelli

men