c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

Unnamed: 0 int64 0 11.8k	id int64 8 76k	text stringlengths 15 418	author stringlengths 3 32	category stringclasses 117 values
8,993	72,191	Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.	Jon Meacham	war
5,996	34,585	The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.	Jonathan Sacks	history
8,592	6,294	I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.	Marilyn Monroe	best
6,475	47,102	Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.	Molly Shannon	mom
7,895	17,494	Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.	John Stuart Mill	experience
4,887	50,777	Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.	Ravi Shankar	music
763	55,652	Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.	Hilary Duff	politics
8,214	26,660	Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.	George Orwell	future
7,881	58,491	I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.	Thomas Jefferson	religion
6,696	28,546	If you don't do your part, don't blame God.	Billy Sunday	god
6,492	72,642	It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.	Mira Nair	wedding
6,941	56,322	We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.	Ian Williams	positive
1,049	22,009	The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.	George Eliot	fear
5,823	71,642	If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.	George Washington	war
7,581	50,507	Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.	Warren G. Bennis	music
4,926	30,324	The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	government
7,682	688	The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.	Tom Hanks	age
6,917	25,824	Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.	Brooke Shields	funny
5,804	58,893	The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.	Dennis Prager	religion
10,849	17,560	I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.	Elisabeth Shue	experience
7,488	56,952	It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.	Eric Hoffer	power
2,748	66,646	No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.	Antonio Tabucchi	teacher
754	16,084	English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.	E. B. White	education
1,835	69,007	From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.	Elvis Presley	time
5,795	38,814	Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.	Matt Walsh	intelligence
9,992	10,220	Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.	David Bohm	communication
3,327	50,593	Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.	Lewis Thomas	music
4,822	19,927	Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.	Rob Bell	faith
8,293	45,373	Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.	Benjamin Franklin	men
4,436	28,584	The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.	Desmond Tutu	god
2,338	51,531	Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.	Leonardo da Vinci	nature
3,834	66,322	Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.	George William Russell	sympathy
9,326	15,589	America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.	David Brooks	dreams
6,756	53,514	There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.	Sherilyn Fenn	peace
4,139	51,159	You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.	Katherine Jenkins	music
7,785	7,842	And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.	Shaquille O'Neal	business
10,670	59,551	A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.	William Lyon Phelps	respect
4,068	7,372	Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.	Thomas J. Watson	business
5,888	46,617	Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.	Gary Allan	mom
961	74,428	Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.	Thomas A. Edison	work
10,240	25,127	Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.	Mohammed Morsi	freedom
2,191	62,938	If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.	Benjamin Disraeli	society
2,228	55,484	In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.	Arthur Henderson	politics
9,863	20,008	I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.	LaToya Jackson	family
10,203	36,496	I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.	will.i.am	hope
5,289	47,592	He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.	James A. Garfield	money
3,250	14,051	Virtue alone has majesty in death.	Edward Young	death
1,423	31,629	There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.	James Dean	great
5,087	25,645	When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.	Albert Einstein	funny
6,881	56,385	I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.	Constance Jablonski	positive
1,154	5,585	I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.	Roberto Cavalli	beauty
5,271	15,147	Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.	Sigmund Freud	dreams
11,776	61,529	One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.	Robert A. Heinlein	science
2,080	69,161	Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.	Ernest Hemingway	travel
10,332	31,707	I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.	Luther Burbank	great
648	3,006	Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.	Austin O'Malley	anger
4,489	13,614	I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.	Pope John XXIII	death
11,309	1,663	I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.	Ginnifer Goodwin	alone
5,181	42,809	Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?	Paul Ryan	life
7,729	50,749	There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.	Jean de la Bruyere	music
10,206	36,123	Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.	David Schwimmer	hope
9,740	74,229	Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.	Robert Farrar Capon	women
9,336	58,864	Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.	Thomas Hobbes	religion
7,876	47,132	Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.	Nerlens Noel	mom
7,176	55,854	You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.	Zig Ziglar	positive
9,278	41,618	As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.	Julian Bond	legal
2,701	4,839	My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.	Julie Burchill	attitude
4,519	1,998	If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.	George S. Patton	amazing
4,974	3,007	How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.	Frank Herbert	anger
11,154	34,798	Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.	Stockwell Day	history
3,259	68,718	Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.	Thomas Carlyle	time
970	38,056	A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.	Arthur Wing Pinero	imagination
11,790	10,361	I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.	Marc Jacobs	computers
3,528	46,147	Men are what their mothers made them.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	mom
3,826	65,148	So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.	Sri Mulyani Indrawati	strength
3,195	70,157	I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.	Lindsey Buckingham	trust
5,048	1,167	It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.	Terry Pratchett	alone
5,090	9,914	Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.	Jeff Goodell	change
5,062	47,076	When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'	Rico Rodriguez	mom
10,604	70,476	If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.	Adnan Pachachi	trust
8,787	73,679	There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.	Margaret Thatcher	women
788	25,959	It's a funny old world.	Margaret Thatcher	funny
11,082	44,976	To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.	Mike Pence	medical
2,603	35,613	Family makes a house a home.	Jennifer Hudson	home
11,227	12,897	When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.	Brendan Fehr	dad
2,426	15,315	I have those dreams that you can't put into words.	Harry Connick, Jr.	dreams
4,929	60,492	Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.	Charles Kuralt	romantic
9,730	30,758	Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.	Daniel Greenberg	graduation
6,560	53,168	I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.	Jermaine Jackson	peace
5,768	23,537	I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.	Bela Lugosi	food
3,861	7,472	Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.	Charlie Sheen	business
6,241	26,609	The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.	Seal	funny
94	56,219	I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'	Michael Weatherly	positive
10,070	6,350	Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.	Tim Allen	best
886	1,004	I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.	Audrey Hepburn	alone
7,434	66,316	My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.	Agnes Smedley	sympathy
11,443	56,144	Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.	David Hasselhoff	positive
2,408	64,038	We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.	Bobby Orr	sports
10,452	69,468	I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.	Victoria Beckham	travel
9,989	16,081	Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.	Laurence J. Peter	education

8,993

72,191

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

Jon Meacham

war

5,996

34,585

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

Jonathan Sacks

history

8,592

6,294

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Marilyn Monroe

best

6,475

47,102

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

Molly Shannon

mom

7,895

17,494

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

John Stuart Mill

experience

4,887

50,777

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

music

763

55,652

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Hilary Duff

politics

8,214

26,660

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

future

7,881

58,491

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

religion

6,696

28,546

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Billy Sunday

god

6,492

72,642

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

Mira Nair

wedding

6,941

56,322

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

Ian Williams

positive

1,049

22,009

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot

fear

5,823

71,642

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

war

7,581

50,507

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

music

4,926

30,324

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

government

7,682

688

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Tom Hanks

age

6,917

25,824

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

funny

5,804

58,893

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Dennis Prager

religion

10,849

17,560

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

experience

7,488

56,952

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer

power

2,748

66,646

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Antonio Tabucchi

teacher

754

16,084

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

E. B. White

education

1,835

69,007

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Elvis Presley

time

5,795

38,814

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

Matt Walsh

intelligence

9,992

10,220

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

David Bohm

communication

3,327

50,593

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

music

4,822

19,927

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

Rob Bell

faith

8,293

45,373

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

men

4,436

28,584

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

god

2,338

51,531

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

nature

3,834

66,322

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

George William Russell

sympathy

9,326

15,589

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

David Brooks

dreams

6,756

53,514

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

Sherilyn Fenn

peace

4,139

51,159

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

Katherine Jenkins

music

7,785

7,842

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Shaquille O'Neal

business

10,670

59,551

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

respect

4,068

7,372

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

business

5,888

46,617

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

Gary Allan

mom

961

74,428

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

work

10,240

25,127

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Mohammed Morsi

freedom

2,191

62,938

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Benjamin Disraeli

society

2,228

55,484

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Arthur Henderson

politics

9,863

20,008

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

LaToya Jackson

family

10,203

36,496

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

will.i.am

hope

5,289

47,592

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

James A. Garfield

money

3,250

14,051

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Edward Young

death

1,423

31,629

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

James Dean

great

5,087

25,645

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

funny

6,881

56,385

I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

Constance Jablonski

positive

1,154

5,585

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Roberto Cavalli

beauty

5,271

15,147

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Sigmund Freud

dreams

11,776

61,529

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

science

2,080

69,161

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Ernest Hemingway

travel

10,332

31,707

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Luther Burbank

great

648

3,006

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Austin O'Malley

anger

4,489

13,614

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Pope John XXIII

death

11,309

1,663

I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.

Ginnifer Goodwin

alone

5,181

42,809

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

life

7,729

50,749

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

Jean de la Bruyere

music

10,206

36,123

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

David Schwimmer

hope

9,740

74,229

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Robert Farrar Capon

women

9,336

58,864

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

religion

7,876

47,132

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

Nerlens Noel

mom

7,176

55,854

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

Zig Ziglar

positive

9,278

41,618

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Julian Bond

legal

2,701

4,839

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Julie Burchill

attitude

4,519

1,998

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

George S. Patton

amazing

4,974

3,007

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

anger

11,154

34,798

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

history

3,259

68,718

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

time

970

38,056

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

imagination

11,790

10,361

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

Marc Jacobs

computers

3,528

46,147

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

mom

3,826

65,148

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

strength

3,195

70,157

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

Lindsey Buckingham

trust

5,048

1,167

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Terry Pratchett

alone

5,090

9,914

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Jeff Goodell

change

5,062

47,076

When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

Rico Rodriguez

mom

10,604

70,476

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

Adnan Pachachi

trust

8,787

73,679

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

women

788

25,959

It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

funny

11,082

44,976

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Mike Pence

medical

2,603

35,613

Family makes a house a home.

Jennifer Hudson

home

11,227

12,897

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Brendan Fehr

dad

2,426

15,315

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

Harry Connick, Jr.

dreams

4,929

60,492

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

Charles Kuralt

romantic

9,730

30,758

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

Daniel Greenberg

graduation

6,560

53,168

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

Jermaine Jackson

peace

5,768

23,537

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Bela Lugosi

food

3,861

7,472

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Charlie Sheen

business

6,241

26,609

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

Seal

funny

94

56,219

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Michael Weatherly

positive

10,070

6,350

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Tim Allen

best

886

1,004

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn

alone

7,434

66,316

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Agnes Smedley

sympathy

11,443

56,144

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

David Hasselhoff

positive

2,408

64,038

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

Bobby Orr

sports

10,452

69,468

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Victoria Beckham

travel

9,989

16,081

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

education