c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,317	30,979	Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.	Benjamin Franklin	great
9,652	48,216	There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.	Erma Bombeck	morning
9,731	8,152	I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.	Curt Schilling	business
9,781	70,632	Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.	Albert Einstein	truth
4,801	56,405	Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.	Margaret Thatcher	power
6,541	46,419	President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.	Tom Vilsack	mom
7,825	14,703	For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.	James Rouse	design
11,091	28,891	Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.	Josh Billings	good
3,205	3,886	It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.	Aristotle	art
745	36,882	Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.	Edward de Bono	humor
4,644	20,028	Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.	Barbara Bush	family
11,306	5,581	I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.	Robert Browning	beauty
2,358	39,828	May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.	Ralph Thomas Walker	knowledge
10,875	37,549	Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.	Lauren Bacall	imagination
4,414	40,340	The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.	Jan Schakowsky	leadership
10,041	38,903	Jealousy is the grave of affection.	Mary Baker Eddy	jealousy
7,472	37,257	I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.	Jonny Lee Miller	humor
3,871	12,736	My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?	Bill Keller	dad
1,132	50,609	As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.	Hugh Jackman	music
4,676	72,348	I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.	Roberto Cavalli	war
842	38,441	When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'	Brian Eno	intelligence
3,118	18,279	No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.	Hu Shih	experience
7,382	53,513	Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.	Walter Ulbricht	peace
1,917	41,435	After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.	James Tobin	learning
556	48,745	When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.	Victoria Abril	morning
4,064	8,080	The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.	Elisabeth Rohm	business
3,000	40,235	President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.	Lindsey Graham	leadership
3,714	43,910	Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.	Ambrose Bierce	marriage
8,435	31,844	Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.	Dale Carnegie	happiness
8,647	51,344	Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.	Jean Paul	nature
3,465	32,156	Happiness is the natural flower of duty.	Phillips Brooks	happiness
9,219	68,588	Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.	Mitt Romney	time
4,071	58,979	Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.	Joyce Carol Oates	religion
7,597	15,630	Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.	Isaac Hayes	dreams
3,701	7,901	I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.	Tony Bennett	business
2,849	72,078	I hope my own children never have to fight a war.	George H. W. Bush	war
860	30,663	You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.	Dick Cheney	government
922	9,421	Some people change when they think they're a star or something.	Paris Hilton	change
3,070	2,372	Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.	Chris O'Dowd	amazing
2,373	58,898	Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.	Paul Tournier	religion
3,929	53,243	But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.	Elle Macpherson	peace
1,581	15,490	When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.	Alan Jackson	dreams
5,447	30,897	You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.	Albert Einstein	great
11,092	74,285	Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.	Julie Burchill	women
11,279	29,668	I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.	Joan Rivers	good
8,330	40,149	We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?	Thomas Frank	leadership
5,808	9,084	He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.	Harold Wilson	change
1,498	34,915	Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.	Freya Stark	home
5,344	21,097	I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.	Alanis Morissette	famous
10,529	40,950	Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.	Flora Lewis	learning
2,837	52,548	Patience means restraining one's inclinations.	Tokugawa Ieyasu	patience
11,764	71,751	War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.	Thomas Paine	war
915	62,342	I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.	Bobby Fischer	science
6,766	74,742	People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.	Aldous Huxley	work
2,040	36,809	You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.	Sharron Angle	hope
7,489	38,531	The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.	Todd Solondz	intelligence
6,410	60,043	There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.	Helena Christensen	respect
5,333	57,439	Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.	Dave Barry	relationship
11,412	68,676	Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.	Dave Winfield	time
4,017	49,076	Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.	Tony Robbins	motivational
4,328	49,834	I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.	Tommy Lee Jones	movies
3,110	20,249	Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.	Arnold Schwarzenegger	family
4,102	42,876	Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.	James A. Baldwin	love
664	62,663	The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.	Bryant McGill	smile
10,855	20,947	My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.	Laura Schlessinger	family
884	28,393	Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.	Euripides	god
5,340	63,751	I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.	Shaquille O'Neal	sports
259	67,865	I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.	David Wilkerson	teen
11,211	67,003	So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.	Steve Jobs	technology
6,918	53,387	Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.	Arthur Henderson	peace
10,079	73,380	Courage is always the surest wisdom.	Wilfred Grenfell	wisdom
4,391	75,172	Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.	Andre Gide	work
931	53,354	I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.	Moshe Dayan	peace
8,289	5,820	I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.	Josie Maran	beauty
10,708	43,091	Love is metaphysical gravity.	R. Buckminster Fuller	love
289	64,288	We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.	Mick Cornett	sports
7,376	75,614	I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.	Steve Israel	christmas
5,850	15,481	When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.	Laurieann Gibson	dreams
8,277	11,556	Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.	Ronald Reagan	courage
663	51,990	I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.	Thor Heyerdahl	nature
8,005	65,995	I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.	Brendan Fraser	success
8,113	39,447	'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.	Eddie Van Halen	knowledge
9,973	73,043	The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.	Jean Cocteau	wisdom
10,597	63,045	Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.	Rush Limbaugh	society
6,173	68,491	Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.	Ernest Hemingway	time
10,958	64,845	As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.	George Mason	strength
2,689	25,008	Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.	John Ralston Saul	freedom
1,261	57,939	For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.	Lance Bass	relationship
3,452	50,212	Without music, life would be a mistake.	Friedrich Nietzsche	music
511	70,193	It takes people a while to trust you.	Karl Malone	trust
5,872	2,553	I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.	Steffi Graf	amazing
2,136	52,727	It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.	John Amery	patriotism
9,601	43,475	It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.	Charlie Sheen	love
11,796	28,425	When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.	Mignon McLaughlin	god
9,154	51,368	I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.	Hamlin Garland	nature
1,065	72,253	The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.	Ramsey Clark	war
9,004	56,930	Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.	Alice Walker	power
11,267	28,244	Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.	Christopher Hitchens	god
3,549	44,957	I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.	Jack Kevorkian	medical
2,563	9,118	Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.	Francis Bacon	change

3,317

30,979

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

great

9,652

48,216

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Erma Bombeck

morning

9,731

8,152

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Curt Schilling

business

9,781

70,632

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

truth

4,801

56,405

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

power

6,541

46,419

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

Tom Vilsack

mom

7,825

14,703

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

James Rouse

design

11,091

28,891

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

good

3,205

3,886

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

art

745

36,882

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

humor

4,644

20,028

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Barbara Bush

family

11,306

5,581

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Robert Browning

beauty

2,358

39,828

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Ralph Thomas Walker

knowledge

10,875

37,549

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

imagination

4,414

40,340

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Jan Schakowsky

leadership

10,041

38,903

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

jealousy

7,472

37,257

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Jonny Lee Miller

humor

3,871

12,736

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Bill Keller

dad

1,132

50,609

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Hugh Jackman

music

4,676

72,348

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Roberto Cavalli

war

842

38,441

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Brian Eno

intelligence

3,118

18,279

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Hu Shih

experience

7,382

53,513

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Walter Ulbricht

peace

1,917

41,435

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

James Tobin

learning

556

48,745

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Victoria Abril

morning

4,064

8,080

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Elisabeth Rohm

business

3,000

40,235

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Lindsey Graham

leadership

3,714

43,910

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

marriage

8,435

31,844

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

happiness

8,647

51,344

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

nature

3,465

32,156

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

happiness

9,219

68,588

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Mitt Romney

time

4,071

58,979

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

religion

7,597

15,630

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

Isaac Hayes

dreams

3,701

7,901

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Tony Bennett

business

2,849

72,078

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

George H. W. Bush

war

860

30,663

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

Dick Cheney

government

922

9,421

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Paris Hilton

change

3,070

2,372

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

Chris O'Dowd

amazing

2,373

58,898

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Paul Tournier

religion

3,929

53,243

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Elle Macpherson

peace

1,581

15,490

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Alan Jackson

dreams

5,447

30,897

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Albert Einstein

great

11,092

74,285

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

women

11,279

29,668

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers

good

8,330

40,149

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

Thomas Frank

leadership

5,808

9,084

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

change

1,498

34,915

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Freya Stark

home

5,344

21,097

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Alanis Morissette

famous

10,529

40,950

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Flora Lewis

learning

2,837

52,548

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

patience

11,764

71,751

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

war

915

62,342

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Bobby Fischer

science

6,766

74,742

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Aldous Huxley

work

2,040

36,809

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

Sharron Angle

hope

7,489

38,531

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Todd Solondz

intelligence

6,410

60,043

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Helena Christensen

respect

5,333

57,439

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

Dave Barry

relationship

11,412

68,676

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Dave Winfield

time

4,017

49,076

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins

motivational

4,328

49,834

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

Tommy Lee Jones

movies

3,110

20,249

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

family

4,102

42,876

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James A. Baldwin

love

664

62,663

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

Bryant McGill

smile

10,855

20,947

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

Laura Schlessinger

family

884

28,393

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Euripides

god

5,340

63,751

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Shaquille O'Neal

sports

259

67,865

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

David Wilkerson

teen

11,211

67,003

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

Steve Jobs

technology

6,918

53,387

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Arthur Henderson

peace

10,079

73,380

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Wilfred Grenfell

wisdom

4,391

75,172

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

work

931

53,354

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Moshe Dayan

peace

8,289

5,820

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

Josie Maran

beauty

10,708

43,091

Love is metaphysical gravity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

love

289

64,288

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

sports

7,376

75,614

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Steve Israel

christmas

5,850

15,481

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.

Laurieann Gibson

dreams

8,277

11,556

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Ronald Reagan

courage

663

51,990

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

nature

8,005

65,995

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.

Brendan Fraser

success

8,113

39,447

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

Eddie Van Halen

knowledge

9,973

73,043

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

wisdom

10,597

63,045

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

Rush Limbaugh

society

6,173

68,491

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway

time

10,958

64,845

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

George Mason

strength

2,689

25,008

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

John Ralston Saul

freedom

1,261

57,939

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

Lance Bass

relationship

3,452

50,212

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

music

511

70,193

It takes people a while to trust you.

Karl Malone

trust

5,872

2,553

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

Steffi Graf

amazing

2,136

52,727

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

John Amery

patriotism

9,601

43,475

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

Charlie Sheen

love

11,796

28,425

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Mignon McLaughlin

god

9,154

51,368

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Hamlin Garland

nature

1,065

72,253

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark

war

9,004

56,930

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Alice Walker

power

11,267

28,244

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Christopher Hitchens

god

3,549

44,957

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Jack Kevorkian

medical

2,563

9,118

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Francis Bacon

change