c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,408	29,008	It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.	Rene Descartes	good
6,770	10,825	All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.	Beth Ditto	cool
84	50,560	I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'	Lady Gaga	music
7,491	17,201	Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.	Michelle Bachelet	equality
11,318	4,991	People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.	Salman Khan	attitude
239	56,527	Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.	Thomas Jefferson	power
6,795	67,309	I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.	John Hench	technology
1,955	34,071	In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.	Leo Tolstoy	history
4,294	72,397	They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.	John Boehner	war
9,767	11,166	I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.	David R. Ellis	cool
10,756	63,301	We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.	Benjamin Carson	society
7,481	34,656	The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.	Noam Chomsky	history
1,070	19,582	Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.	Christopher Fry	faith
2,141	10,199	No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.	Joshua Foer	communication
2,102	53,706	A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.	Sivananda	peace
6,314	7,696	To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.	Jennifer Aniston	business
1,353	31,158	Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.	Peter Marshall	great
10,884	27,815	That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.	Albert Einstein	god
4,603	75,616	It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.	Luke Perry	christmas
9,430	68,235	It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.	Winston Churchill	time
3,568	70,374	I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.	Jenna Dewan	trust
2,466	71,800	A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.	H. G. Wells	war
8,058	35,272	Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.	Annie Lennox	home
2,242	35,816	When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.	Calamity Jane	home
1,873	3,016	I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.	Frank Moore Colby	anger
6,401	20,251	If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.	Bernard Meltzer	family
1,789	73,738	A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.	Walt Whitman	women
11,329	61,025	I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.	Bryan Adams	sad
9,447	31,007	Great acts are made up of small deeds.	Lao Tzu	great
2,246	65,375	The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.	Elbert Hubbard	success
4,296	47,758	If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.	David Suzuki	money
146	12,293	Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.	Tom Hiddleston	dad
5,677	69,919	The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.	Thomas J. Watson	trust
2,859	25,400	I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.	Jerry Lewis	friendship
406	57,770	I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.	Brad Pitt	relationship
4,117	74,262	Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.	Muhammad Yunus	women
10,255	898	My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.	Corey Feldman	age
8,121	65,881	Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.	A. N. Wilson	success
10,841	74,093	And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.	Jenna Elfman	women
4,337	32,374	If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.	Joseph Franklin Rutherford	happiness
7,322	67,795	Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.	Dave Barry	teen
893	57,750	We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.	King Abdullah II	relationship
4,864	64,565	The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.	Max Lerner	strength
5,324	68,297	If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.	Benjamin Franklin	time
219	27,868	If God is just, I tremble for my country.	Thomas Jefferson	god
9,312	63,155	Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.	Michel Foucault	society
8,951	23,860	We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.	Paul Prudhomme	food
11,459	11,857	Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.	Jean Anouilh	courage
4,625	63,501	When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.	Anna Deavere Smith	society
10,923	35,932	There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.	Bill Cosby	hope
8,772	9,332	We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.	Edmund Burke	change
8,952	75,736	I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.	Julie Burchill	easter
4,574	46,175	When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.	Margaret Sanger	mom
7,220	57,965	If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.	Howard Stern	relationship
3,917	66,388	Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.	Soren Kierkegaard	teacher
7,327	57,641	I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.	Nicole Kidman	relationship
11,451	6,409	Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.	Mitt Romney	best
5,329	62,178	I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.	Lukas Foss	science
11,500	15,801	Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.	John Dewey	education
8,698	33,094	My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.	Harry Connick, Jr.	health
945	42,666	Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.	Bill Gates	life
9,172	56,866	How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?	Robert Plant	power
2,386	42,435	The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.	Aristotle	life
128	27,521	The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.	George Papandreou	future
5,671	13,509	I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.	Harriet Tubman	death
792	8,006	In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.	Evan Davis	business
733	3,972	Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.	Ray Bradbury	art
124	23,814	My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.	Tom Brady	food
6,554	3,399	The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.	Stephen Gardiner	architecture
208	31,186	A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.	Orison Swett Marden	great
4,285	35,329	I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.	Jawaharlal Nehru	home
1,346	61,977	The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.	Eric Schmidt	science
1,638	18,150	Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.	Stanislav Grof	experience
5,689	7,852	Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.	Sammy Davis, Jr.	business
9,682	40,402	I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.	Yitzhak Shamir	leadership
158	22,680	People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.	Natan Sharansky	fear
5,879	49,124	One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.	Michael Korda	motivational
5,491	54,451	Poetry is composing for the breath.	Peter Davison	poetry
4,665	35,609	I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.	Stephan Jenkins	home
5,869	63,273	It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.	Friedrich August von Hayek	society
6,725	73,940	Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.	Rita Rudner	women
8,159	71,417	I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'	Daniel Craig	truth
7,390	17,490	The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.	Sigmund Freud	experience
4,798	13,752	Death is an absolute marvel.	William Shatner	death
4,890	64,784	I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.	Novak Djokovic	strength
6,938	5,680	There is a role and function for beauty in our time.	Tadao Ando	beauty
11,473	50,960	Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.	Phil Collins	music
4,865	61,979	I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.	Laurell K. Hamilton	science
10,100	48,738	Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.	William Scranton	morning
6,688	69,641	I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.	Ethan Embry	travel
2,257	720	As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.	Julie Burchill	age
11,216	30,978	I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.	Ronald Reagan	great
9,144	14,954	While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.	Mark E. Hyman	diet
4,841	52,180	Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.	Xun Zi	nature
1,504	43,152	When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.	Marcus Aurelius	love
320	71,852	Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.	Ulysses S. Grant	war
9,980	8,985	I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!	Mackenzie Crook	car
4,682	49,221	If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.	Quentin Tarantino	movies
5,356	24,800	You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?	Lech Walesa	freedom
3,539	49,462	It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.	Dick Wolf	movies

3,408

29,008

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

good

6,770

10,825

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

Beth Ditto

cool

84

50,560

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Lady Gaga

music

7,491

17,201

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

Michelle Bachelet

equality

11,318

4,991

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

Salman Khan

attitude

239

56,527

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

power

6,795

67,309

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

John Hench

technology

1,955

34,071

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

history

4,294

72,397

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

John Boehner

war

9,767

11,166

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

David R. Ellis

cool

10,756

63,301

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Benjamin Carson

society

7,481

34,656

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Noam Chomsky

history

1,070

19,582

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

faith

2,141

10,199

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Joshua Foer

communication

2,102

53,706

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Sivananda

peace

6,314

7,696

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Jennifer Aniston

business

1,353

31,158

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Marshall

great

10,884

27,815

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

god

4,603

75,616

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

Luke Perry

christmas

9,430

68,235

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

time

3,568

70,374

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Jenna Dewan

trust

2,466

71,800

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells

war

8,058

35,272

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Annie Lennox

home

2,242

35,816

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Calamity Jane

home

1,873

3,016

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Frank Moore Colby

anger

6,401

20,251

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer

family

1,789

73,738

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

women

11,329

61,025

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Bryan Adams

sad

9,447

31,007

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Lao Tzu

great

2,246

65,375

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

success

4,296

47,758

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

David Suzuki

money

146

12,293

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Tom Hiddleston

dad

5,677

69,919

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Thomas J. Watson

trust

2,859

25,400

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Jerry Lewis

friendship

406

57,770

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

Brad Pitt

relationship

4,117

74,262

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Muhammad Yunus

women

10,255

898

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

Corey Feldman

age

8,121

65,881

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

A. N. Wilson

success

10,841

74,093

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Jenna Elfman

women

4,337

32,374

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

happiness

7,322

67,795

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Dave Barry

teen

893

57,750

We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

King Abdullah II

relationship

4,864

64,565

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Max Lerner

strength

5,324

68,297

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin

time

219

27,868

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Thomas Jefferson

god

9,312

63,155

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Michel Foucault

society

8,951

23,860

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Paul Prudhomme

food

11,459

11,857

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

courage

4,625

63,501

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith

society

10,923

35,932

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Bill Cosby

hope

8,772

9,332

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

change

8,952

75,736

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

Julie Burchill

easter

4,574

46,175

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Margaret Sanger

mom

7,220

57,965

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

Howard Stern

relationship

3,917

66,388

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

teacher

7,327

57,641

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

Nicole Kidman

relationship

11,451

6,409

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

Mitt Romney

best

5,329

62,178

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

science

11,500

15,801

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

John Dewey

education

8,698

33,094

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

Harry Connick, Jr.

health

945

42,666

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Bill Gates

life

9,172

56,866

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Robert Plant

power

2,386

42,435

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Aristotle

life

128

27,521

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

George Papandreou

future

5,671

13,509

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Harriet Tubman

death

792

8,006

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Evan Davis

business

733

3,972

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Ray Bradbury

art

124

23,814

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

Tom Brady

food

6,554

3,399

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

architecture

208

31,186

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Orison Swett Marden

great

4,285

35,329

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

home

1,346

61,977

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Eric Schmidt

science

1,638

18,150

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Stanislav Grof

experience

5,689

7,852

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

business

9,682

40,402

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

Yitzhak Shamir

leadership

158

22,680

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

Natan Sharansky

fear

5,879

49,124

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Michael Korda

motivational

5,491

54,451

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Peter Davison

poetry

4,665

35,609

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

Stephan Jenkins

home

5,869

63,273

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Friedrich August von Hayek

society

6,725

73,940

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

Rita Rudner

women

8,159

71,417

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Daniel Craig

truth

7,390

17,490

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

experience

4,798

13,752

Death is an absolute marvel.

William Shatner

death

4,890

64,784

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

Novak Djokovic

strength

6,938

5,680

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Tadao Ando

beauty

11,473

50,960

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Phil Collins

music

4,865

61,979

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Laurell K. Hamilton

science

10,100

48,738

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

William Scranton

morning

6,688

69,641

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

Ethan Embry

travel

2,257

720

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Julie Burchill

age

11,216

30,978

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

great

9,144

14,954

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.

Mark E. Hyman

diet

4,841

52,180

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Xun Zi

nature

1,504

43,152

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

love

320

71,852

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

war

9,980

8,985

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

Mackenzie Crook

car

4,682

49,221

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Quentin Tarantino

movies

5,356

24,800

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

freedom

3,539

49,462

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Dick Wolf

movies