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1,634	6,728	Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.	George Santayana	best
3,088	18,972	The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.	Ed Case	failure
11,654	54,997	There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.	Barack Obama	politics
1,560	59,692	Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.	DMX	respect
1,735	50,502	You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.	Robert Plant	music
10,736	40,485	House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?	Bill Pascrell	leadership
858	71,821	All oppression creates a state of war.	Simone de Beauvoir	war
7,201	4,634	I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.	Jane Campion	art
7,033	27,109	Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	future
875	50,106	Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.	Laura Dern	movies
7,635	149	It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.	Margaret Mead	age
1,097	6,195	The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.	Abraham Lincoln	best
10,037	10,954	When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.	Jean Claude Van Damme	cool
3,644	60,972	NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.	Neil Armstrong	sad
9,590	66,187	Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	sympathy
7,129	58,563	The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	religion
3,003	71,586	The first casualty when war comes is truth.	Hiram Johnson	war
481	33,222	I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.	Tony Kushner	health
3,858	30,852	Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?	Henry David Thoreau	great
938	36,582	My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.	Trey Parker	hope
4,372	45,614	All religions have been made by men.	Napoleon Bonaparte	men
9,470	28,686	You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.	Jim Bakker	god
8,373	62,196	You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.	James Hansen	science
5,205	60,293	The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.	Kurt Masur	respect
6,934	12,464	I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.	Gary Numan	dad
2,855	7,426	To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.	Andre Malraux	business
3,818	13,369	Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.	Buddha	death
8,455	72,351	After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.	Leon Panetta	war
6,068	21,470	I became famous almost before I had a craft.	Farrah Fawcett	famous
2,216	61,995	Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.	Anna Torv	science
9,102	54,109	Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	poetry
11,293	43,397	Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.	Katharine Hepburn	love
7,563	34,356	It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.	Neale Donald Walsch	history
8,365	9,920	President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.	Mia Love	change
7,424	9,276	If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.	Clint Eastwood	change
2,948	14,448	When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.	Larry Wall	design
6,491	15,396	I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.	Christopher Nolan	dreams
2,908	64,415	I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.	Michael Keaton	sports
9,369	58,210	For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.	Anne Heche	relationship
5,748	48,392	Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?	Jessica Ennis	morning
4,594	63,236	I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.	William Hague	society
9,779	65,420	The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.	Samuel Smiles	success
8,164	51,676	Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!	Alexander Pope	nature
3,857	53,438	For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.	Ariel Sharon	peace
4,253	59,333	We need a new religion.	Lauren Hutton	religion
1,961	9,996	You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.	Daniel Keys Moran	change
1,511	53,242	Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.	William Allen White	peace
10,658	66,598	There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.	Tom Vilsack	teacher
10,924	3,335	Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.	Solomon Ortiz	anniversary
3,028	13,137	My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.	Alicia Silverstone	dating
11,526	24,773	Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.	Prince	freedom
7,906	27,619	It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.	Ray Dalio	future
409	72,618	I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.	Jane Seymour	wedding
955	49,746	I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.	Emma Roberts	movies
3,385	53,690	I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.	Robert Indiana	peace
8,011	3,086	President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.	Paul Ryan	anger
11,399	7,867	I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.	Roy Rogers	business
3,152	11,643	Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.	William Butler Yeats	courage
5,773	996	Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.	Anne Tyler	age
7,674	292	Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.	Reinhold Niebuhr	age
8,474	27,355	There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.	Mitchell Reiss	future
9,356	46,454	I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.	Beth Ditto	mom
5,150	13,506	If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.	Angelina Jolie	death
657	3,032	It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.	William Arthur Ward	anger
4,576	11,436	I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.	Bobby Cannavale	cool
11,716	38,383	Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.	Pablo Picasso	intelligence
9,915	2,763	I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.	Elena Vesnina	amazing
11,701	14,171	I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.	Ethel Waters	death
11,041	15,550	Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?	John Amery	dreams
6,485	63,165	Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.	Charles Kuralt	society
2,046	22,005	The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.	Charles Bronson	fear
6,932	35,433	So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.	Reba McEntire	home
4,963	12,329	My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.	Harry Connick, Jr.	dad
6,487	35,982	I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.	Judy Garland	hope
6,285	29,155	Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.	Nelson Mandela	good
8,123	766	Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.	Theodore Bikel	age
11,765	69,297	The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.	Paul Theroux	travel
437	59,388	The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.	Kit Williams	religion
8,262	48,305	Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.	A. E. Housman	morning
6,595	65,888	It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.	Michael Pitt	success
5,928	53,399	There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.	Douglas William Jerrold	peace
5,875	115	Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.	Mark Twain	age
3,398	46,086	As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.	Nora Ephron	men
7,056	56,138	But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.	Georg Brandes	positive
8,502	59,193	When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.	Kathie Lee Gifford	religion
2,529	30,040	Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.	P. J. O'Rourke	government
3,793	8,538	I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.	Danica Patrick	car
8,591	42,510	If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.	Henry David Thoreau	life
4,487	36,388	The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.	David Attenborough	hope
2,425	2,216	Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.	Jeffrey Kluger	amazing
2,345	31,251	All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.	Patti LaBelle	great
9,490	27,791	Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.	Alphonsus Liguori	god
994	35,715	It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.	Khloe Kardashian	home
11,574	6,184	The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.	Vince Lombardi	best
2,325	73,494	Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.	Gloria Steinem	women
1,814	48,562	Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.	Jon Huntsman, Jr.	morning
6,842	22,088	The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.	Joseph Addison	fear
1,939	40,143	The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.	Herman Cain	leadership
9,904	28,834	Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.	John Wooden	good
2,181	23,159	Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.	Finley Peter Dunne	food

1,634

6,728

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

best

3,088

18,972

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Ed Case

failure

11,654

54,997

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama

politics

1,560

59,692

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

DMX

respect

1,735

50,502

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Robert Plant

music

10,736

40,485

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

Bill Pascrell

leadership

858

71,821

All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

war

7,201

4,634

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Jane Campion

art

7,033

27,109

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

future

875

50,106

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Laura Dern

movies

7,635

149

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

age

1,097

6,195

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

best

10,037

10,954

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

Jean Claude Van Damme

cool

3,644

60,972

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Neil Armstrong

sad

9,590

66,187

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

sympathy

7,129

58,563

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

religion

3,003

71,586

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson

war

481

33,222

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Tony Kushner

health

3,858

30,852

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Henry David Thoreau

great

938

36,582

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

Trey Parker

hope

4,372

45,614

All religions have been made by men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

men

9,470

28,686

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker

god

8,373

62,196

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

James Hansen

science

5,205

60,293

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

Kurt Masur

respect

6,934

12,464

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

Gary Numan

dad

2,855

7,426

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Andre Malraux

business

3,818

13,369

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha

death

8,455

72,351

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Leon Panetta

war

6,068

21,470

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

Farrah Fawcett

famous

2,216

61,995

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Anna Torv

science

9,102

54,109

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

poetry

11,293

43,397

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

love

7,563

34,356

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

Neale Donald Walsch

history

8,365

9,920

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

Mia Love

change

7,424

9,276

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Clint Eastwood

change

2,948

14,448

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Larry Wall

design

6,491

15,396

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Christopher Nolan

dreams

2,908

64,415

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Michael Keaton

sports

9,369

58,210

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

Anne Heche

relationship

5,748

48,392

Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

Jessica Ennis

morning

4,594

63,236

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

William Hague

society

9,779

65,420

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Samuel Smiles

success

8,164

51,676

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Alexander Pope

nature

3,857

53,438

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

Ariel Sharon

peace

4,253

59,333

We need a new religion.

Lauren Hutton

religion

1,961

9,996

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Daniel Keys Moran

change

1,511

53,242

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

William Allen White

peace

10,658

66,598

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Tom Vilsack

teacher

10,924

3,335

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Solomon Ortiz

anniversary

3,028

13,137

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Alicia Silverstone

dating

11,526

24,773

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Prince

freedom

7,906

27,619

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

Ray Dalio

future

409

72,618

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

Jane Seymour

wedding

955

49,746

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

Emma Roberts

movies

3,385

53,690

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Robert Indiana

peace

8,011

3,086

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

Paul Ryan

anger

11,399

7,867

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Roy Rogers

business

3,152

11,643

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

William Butler Yeats

courage

5,773

996

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Anne Tyler

age

7,674

292

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

age

8,474

27,355

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

Mitchell Reiss

future

9,356

46,454

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

Beth Ditto

mom

5,150

13,506

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

death

657

3,032

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

anger

4,576

11,436

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Bobby Cannavale

cool

11,716

38,383

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso

intelligence

9,915

2,763

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

Elena Vesnina

amazing

11,701

14,171

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

Ethel Waters

death

11,041

15,550

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

John Amery

dreams

6,485

63,165

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Charles Kuralt

society

2,046

22,005

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

Charles Bronson

fear

6,932

35,433

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.

Reba McEntire

home

4,963

12,329

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

dad

6,487

35,982

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

Judy Garland

hope

6,285

29,155

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Nelson Mandela

good

8,123

766

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Theodore Bikel

age

11,765

69,297

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Paul Theroux

travel

437

59,388

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

religion

8,262

48,305

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman

morning

6,595

65,888

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

Michael Pitt

success

5,928

53,399

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

peace

5,875

115

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mark Twain

age

3,398

46,086

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Nora Ephron

men

7,056

56,138

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Georg Brandes

positive

8,502

59,193

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Kathie Lee Gifford

religion

2,529

30,040

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

P. J. O'Rourke

government

3,793

8,538

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

Danica Patrick

car

8,591

42,510

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau

life

4,487

36,388

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

David Attenborough

hope

2,425

2,216

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Jeffrey Kluger

amazing

2,345

31,251

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Patti LaBelle

great

9,490

27,791

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Alphonsus Liguori

god

994

35,715

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

home

11,574

6,184

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

best

2,325

73,494

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Gloria Steinem

women

1,814

48,562

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

morning

6,842

22,088

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

fear

1,939

40,143

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Herman Cain

leadership

9,904

28,834

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

good

2,181

23,159

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

food