c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,487	11,526	A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.	Sydney Smith	courage
746	2,055	It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.	Casey Kasum	amazing
7,499	57,714	Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.	John le Carre	relationship
6,092	67,443	That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.	Charles E. Wilson	technology
786	15,024	Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.	Abdul Kalam	dreams
612	40,215	Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.	Angela Davis	leadership
6,093	53,674	Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.	Saint Isaac of Nineveh	peace
5,904	2,458	You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.	Michael Fassbender	amazing
11,689	51,010	I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.	Ani DiFranco	music
755	68,835	As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.	Cleveland Amory	time
8,416	43,009	When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.	Blaise Pascal	love
3,483	25,492	The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.	Mao Zedong	friendship
8,473	47,346	A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.	W. C. Fields	money
3,564	17,001	But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.	John Anderson	environmental
10,063	7,481	If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.	Thomas Sowell	business
4,562	61,851	Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.	Jacob Bronowski	science
794	802	Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.	Cesar Romero	age
6,753	22,695	When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.	Charisma Carpenter	fear
4,269	34,554	A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.	Eliot Spitzer	history
1,326	10,055	Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.	Ansel Adams	communication
1,547	10,301	It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.	George Allen	communication
3,191	27,737	God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.	Peter Marshall	god
1,073	70,506	I have never, not once, violated my public trust.	Alan Mollohan	trust
9,266	57,517	The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.	Doug Coupland	relationship
7,091	15,228	To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.	Leonard Cohen	dreams
5,439	10,399	The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.	Adam Osborne	computers
10,781	72,247	My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.	Twyla Tharp	war
2,177	42,007	Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	life
4,709	30,803	I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.	Ken Buck	graduation
5,983	75,410	This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.	Neil Gaiman	work
5,930	25,301	If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.	George MacDonald	friendship
3,831	56,046	To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.	John Legend	positive
7,088	12,814	Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.	Paul Westerberg	dad
6,235	30,929	These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.	Winston Churchill	great
7,014	43,676	I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.	Sid Vicious	love
8,651	33,319	The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.	Warren Farrell	health
8,421	42,535	Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.	Dan Gable	life
9,041	4,656	Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.	Elbert Hubbard	attitude
4,756	9,591	I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.	Brian Eno	change
7,436	70,596	People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.	Andy Rooney	truth
7,939	33,268	The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.	Mike Huckabee	health
1,143	12,374	My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.	Christian Bale	dad
10,038	59,132	Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.	ASAP Rocky	religion
139	68,171	All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.	William Shakespeare	time
10,635	30,874	Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.	David Hume	great
11,590	61,263	I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.	Jai Rodriguez	sad
1,165	51,944	I like my home and I like the nature.	Billy Corgan	nature
3,748	58,930	I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.	Alice Cooper	religion
2,739	71,519	The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.	Carly Fiorina	truth
11,355	33,656	The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.	George J. Mitchell	health
1,138	28,851	Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.	Mark Twain	good
3,722	20,769	My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.	Laura Linney	family
7,823	5,551	I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.	Rashida Jones	beauty
7,909	38,760	By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.	George Tenet	intelligence
3,442	33,704	If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.	Nathan Deal	health
10,533	32,844	If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.	Robin Wright Penn	health
9,022	49,199	Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.	Charlie Chaplin	movies
7,062	57,676	When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.	Erykah Badu	relationship
2,576	9,495	All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.	Paul Hawken	change
10,262	70,648	He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.	Thomas Jefferson	truth
3,447	59,480	When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.	Michael Jordan	respect
2,939	11,818	Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.	Bob Woodward	courage
2,022	24,631	The precondition to freedom is security.	Rand Beers	freedom
3,726	55,762	'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.	Dick Morris	politics
3,505	59,258	If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.	Edmond de Goncourt	religion
11,558	13,756	Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.	Jerry Seinfeld	death
2,910	24,809	America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.	John Doolittle	freedom
8,022	27,967	God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.	Friedrich Nietzsche	god
6,572	15,759	We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.	Burt Rutan	dreams
6,611	72,019	It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.	William Tecumseh Sherman	war
4,674	28,708	No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.	Anatole France	god
6,522	32,022	Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.	Albert Schweitzer	happiness
6,042	68,160	I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.	Robert Brault	time
8,636	13,185	I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.	Lena Dunham	dating
1,817	7,231	I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.	Matthew Macfadyen	birthday
1,014	33,297	The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.	Paul Farmer	health
5,521	52,328	Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.	Nancy Chodorow	parenting
8,215	30,756	I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.	Sara Paretsky	graduation
9,511	72,026	Law is always better than war.	Brian Eno	war
1,002	21,268	You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.	Marilu Henner	famous
186	47,027	My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.	Eric Stonestreet	mom
8,104	30,984	There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.	Benjamin Franklin	great
8,086	31,412	However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.	Francois de La Rochefoucauld	great
3,449	41,371	I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.	Kevin McKidd	learning
10,649	30,373	Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.	Daniel Webster	government
6,035	25,889	When the sun comes up, I have morals again.	Elayne Boosler	funny
8,122	56,180	I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.	Ashlee Simpson	positive
8,178	442	Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.	Leon Trotsky	age
5,488	4,208	I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.	Emily Carr	art
3,544	50,888	I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.	Jonathan Davis	music
1,655	63,818	If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.	George Brett	sports
10,396	49,608	Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.	Roger Ebert	movies
10,799	36,058	How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.	Niels Bohr	hope
6,313	34,414	Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.	John Podhoretz	history
889	71,114	To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.	John Locke	truth
8,098	24,910	If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.	Nick Clegg	freedom
629	12,569	My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.	Bill Nighy	dad
3,455	12,841	I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.	Eva Longoria	dad
9,747	63,560	Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.	Martin Yan	society
9,423	40,678	People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.	Francis Bacon	learning

3,487

11,526

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

courage

746

2,055

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

Casey Kasum

amazing

7,499

57,714

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John le Carre

relationship

6,092

67,443

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Charles E. Wilson

technology

786

15,024

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Abdul Kalam

dreams

612

40,215

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Angela Davis

leadership

6,093

53,674

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Saint Isaac of Nineveh

peace

5,904

2,458

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

Michael Fassbender

amazing

11,689

51,010

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

Ani DiFranco

music

755

68,835

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Cleveland Amory

time

8,416

43,009

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal

love

3,483

25,492

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Mao Zedong

friendship

8,473

47,346

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

money

3,564

17,001

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

John Anderson

environmental

10,063

7,481

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Thomas Sowell

business

4,562

61,851

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Jacob Bronowski

science

794

802

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

Cesar Romero

age

6,753

22,695

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.

Charisma Carpenter

fear

4,269

34,554

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Eliot Spitzer

history

1,326

10,055

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams

communication

1,547

10,301

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.

George Allen

communication

3,191

27,737

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Peter Marshall

god

1,073

70,506

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Alan Mollohan

trust

9,266

57,517

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Doug Coupland

relationship

7,091

15,228

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Leonard Cohen

dreams

5,439

10,399

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Adam Osborne

computers

10,781

72,247

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Twyla Tharp

war

2,177

42,007

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

life

4,709

30,803

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

Ken Buck

graduation

5,983

75,410

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Neil Gaiman

work

5,930

25,301

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

friendship

3,831

56,046

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

John Legend

positive

7,088

12,814

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Paul Westerberg

dad

6,235

30,929

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

great

7,014

43,676

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Sid Vicious

love

8,651

33,319

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

Warren Farrell

health

8,421

42,535

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Dan Gable

life

9,041

4,656

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

attitude

4,756

9,591

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Brian Eno

change

7,436

70,596

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

truth

7,939

33,268

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Mike Huckabee

health

1,143

12,374

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Christian Bale

dad

10,038

59,132

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

ASAP Rocky

religion

139

68,171

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

time

10,635

30,874

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

David Hume

great

11,590

61,263

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

Jai Rodriguez

sad

1,165

51,944

I like my home and I like the nature.

Billy Corgan

nature

3,748

58,930

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Alice Cooper

religion

2,739

71,519

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

Carly Fiorina

truth

11,355

33,656

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

George J. Mitchell

health

1,138

28,851

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

good

3,722

20,769

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Laura Linney

family

7,823

5,551

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

Rashida Jones

beauty

7,909

38,760

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

George Tenet

intelligence

3,442

33,704

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

Nathan Deal

health

10,533

32,844

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Robin Wright Penn

health

9,022

49,199

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Charlie Chaplin

movies

7,062

57,676

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Erykah Badu

relationship

2,576

9,495

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Paul Hawken

change

10,262

70,648

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

truth

3,447

59,480

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Michael Jordan

respect

2,939

11,818

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Bob Woodward

courage

2,022

24,631

The precondition to freedom is security.

Rand Beers

freedom

3,726

55,762

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

politics

3,505

59,258

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Edmond de Goncourt

religion

11,558

13,756

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Jerry Seinfeld

death

2,910

24,809

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

John Doolittle

freedom

8,022

27,967

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

god

6,572

15,759

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Burt Rutan

dreams

6,611

72,019

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

war

4,674

28,708

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

god

6,522

32,022

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

happiness

6,042

68,160

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Robert Brault

time

8,636

13,185

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

Lena Dunham

dating

1,817

7,231

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Matthew Macfadyen

birthday

1,014

33,297

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

Paul Farmer

health

5,521

52,328

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Nancy Chodorow

parenting

8,215

30,756

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

graduation

9,511

72,026

Law is always better than war.

Brian Eno

war

1,002

21,268

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Marilu Henner

famous

186

47,027

My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.

Eric Stonestreet

mom

8,104

30,984

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

great

8,086

31,412

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

great

3,449

41,371

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

Kevin McKidd

learning

10,649

30,373

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Daniel Webster

government

6,035

25,889

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Elayne Boosler

funny

8,122

56,180

I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

Ashlee Simpson

positive

8,178

442

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

age

5,488

4,208

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Emily Carr

art

3,544

50,888

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

Jonathan Davis

music

1,655

63,818

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

George Brett

sports

10,396

49,608

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Roger Ebert

movies

10,799

36,058

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

hope

6,313

34,414

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

John Podhoretz

history

889

71,114

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

truth

8,098

24,910

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Nick Clegg

freedom

629

12,569

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

Bill Nighy

dad

3,455

12,841

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

Eva Longoria

dad

9,747

63,560

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Martin Yan

society

9,423

40,678

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

learning