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378	49,140	The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.	Alfred Hitchcock	movies
10,423	74,538	In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.	Lao Tzu	work
165	16,220	One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.	Dennis Prager	education
10,082	51,252	May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.	Edward Abbey	nature
10,226	31,419	Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.	Jean Rostand	great
3,023	44,512	The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.	Al Goldstein	marriage
4,358	32,230	Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.	George Santayana	happiness
6,185	10,689	It's cool now to play golf.	Tiger Woods	cool
10,570	67,195	You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.	Marissa Mayer	technology
6,518	28,225	I believe in God and his son, Jesus.	Lil Wayne	god
49	27,092	Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.	Rick Perry	future
6,871	65,206	Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.	Bill Gates	success
10,646	64,711	Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.	Pope Paul VI	strength
10,835	20,739	My family were from Jamaica.	Diane Abbott	family
4,494	28,528	God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.	Ziggy Marley	god
3,609	54,775	He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.	John Colville	poetry
2,990	13,055	I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.	Dusty Baker	dad
281	6,057	When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.	Francine Pascal	beauty
8,979	66,994	Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.	Steve Jobs	technology
10,908	1,931	I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.	Eva Herzigova	alone
4,605	70,223	The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.	Michael Mandelbaum	trust
8,336	45,551	I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.	Bill Cosby	men
9,128	912	If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.	Luciano Pavarotti	age
7,946	15,929	Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.	Bertrand Russell	education
9,379	59,171	The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.	Arthur Wellesley	religion
5,338	48,986	I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.	Maud Welzen	morning
687	52,617	We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.	Dave Barry	patriotism
3,607	60,016	When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.	Brian Ferneyhough	respect
2,676	72,752	Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	wisdom
8,946	9,755	Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.	Beth Ditto	change
6,779	43,824	We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.	Francois de La Rochefoucauld	love
2,902	41,560	I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.	Tom Glazer	legal
5,741	71,117	I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.	Steve Martin	truth
1,675	22,533	When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.	Natan Sharansky	fear
6,581	36,975	Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.	Adam Smith	humor
4,654	42,961	It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.	Shirley MacLaine	love
7,057	39,389	In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.	George Mikes	knowledge
9,630	43,973	I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.	Rose Kennedy	marriage
8,971	18,615	The only failure is not to try.	George Clooney	failure
4,364	43,221	Forgiveness is the final form of love.	Reinhold Niebuhr	love
5,074	34,056	The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.	Aldous Huxley	history
5,847	10,907	We aren't cool and never will be.	Chris Martin	cool
8,720	72,882	Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.	Khalil Gibran	wisdom
9,205	74,715	Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.	Peter Drucker	work
11,533	56,319	America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.	Aloe Blacc	positive
2,609	5,828	My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.	Emmanuelle Chriqui	beauty
11,474	6,355	We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.	Robert Louis Stevenson	best
7,505	29,239	When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.	Edmund Burke	good
10,276	28,451	Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.	Richard P. Feynman	god
9,194	21,928	Fear is the passion of slaves.	Patrick Henry	fear
9,176	70,848	Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.	Richard Dawkins	truth
6,828	5,024	I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.	Malcolm Mclaren	attitude
7,805	37,244	I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.	Teddy Thompson	humor
2,446	19,635	Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.	Luis Fortuno	faith
7,309	62,955	Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.	John Stuart Mill	society
1,003	11,953	I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.	Joe Scarborough	courage
11,213	55,368	I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.	Nigel Farage	politics
1,502	50,853	In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.	Roy H. Williams	music
633	73,735	A women's greatest asset is her beauty.	Alex Comfort	women
1,061	15,284	I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.	Jane Pauley	dreams
9,880	59,153	Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.	Mary Douglas	religion
6,677	64,641	The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.	Michael Korda	strength
9,362	46,756	My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.	Susana Martinez	mom
2,230	43,568	If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.	Emma Goldman	love
849	52,331	In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.	Padma Lakshmi	parenting
7,513	13,257	I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.	Jared Padalecki	dating
7,236	56,428	Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.	Arthur Schopenhauer	power
1,463	68,384	I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.	Charlie Sheen	time
9,466	50,420	We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.	Henry Miller	music
8,559	8,126	What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.	Dennis Miller	business
3,859	17,038	Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.	Honore de Balzac	equality
245	35,515	The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.	Redd Foxx	home
8,219	22,032	The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.	Emile Zola	fear
9,941	17,739	Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.	John Mayer	experience
769	54,643	I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.	James Laughlin	poetry
9,433	74,384	Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?	Kate Millett	women
10,115	15,463	I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.	Karlie Kloss	dreams
3,018	3,252	It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.	Lucy Alibar	anger
3,349	4,088	There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.	Samuel Johnson	art
4,935	31,367	Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.	Orison Swett Marden	great
4,155	64,825	I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.	Wesley Snipes	strength
2,788	4,243	Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.	Jerry Saltz	art
10,901	29,468	Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.	Charles M. Schulz	good
6,536	22,225	Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.	Robert Browning	fear
5,654	29,547	Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.	Karl Marx	good
742	21,061	I will either be famous or infamous.	Otto Dix	famous
3,551	16,725	In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.	John Strachan	education
6,167	12,649	My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.	Chris Isaak	dad
9,139	37,223	There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.	Will Durst	humor
10,250	29,546	To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.	Leo Tolstoy	good
1,818	47,452	Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.	Johnny Cash	money
795	70,397	We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.	John Anderson	trust
5,685	51,946	God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	nature
5,680	5,085	If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.	Cory Lidle	attitude
3,155	23,982	Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.	Henry L. Stimson	food
8,662	24,463	When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.	Vladimir Lenin	freedom
4,903	32,011	We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	happiness
7,822	18,135	Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.	Josh Radnor	experience
4,315	73,303	Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.	Gerald Brenan	wisdom
2,171	22,646	We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.	Robert Trout	fear

378

49,140

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

movies

10,423

74,538

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Lao Tzu

work

165

16,220

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Dennis Prager

education

10,082

51,252

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

nature

10,226

31,419

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

great

3,023

44,512

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Al Goldstein

marriage

4,358

32,230

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

George Santayana

happiness

6,185

10,689

It's cool now to play golf.

Tiger Woods

cool

10,570

67,195

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

Marissa Mayer

technology

6,518

28,225

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

Lil Wayne

god

49

27,092

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Rick Perry

future

6,871

65,206

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

success

10,646

64,711

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Pope Paul VI

strength

10,835

20,739

My family were from Jamaica.

Diane Abbott

family

4,494

28,528

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

Ziggy Marley

god

3,609

54,775

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

John Colville

poetry

2,990

13,055

I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dusty Baker

dad

281

6,057

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

Francine Pascal

beauty

8,979

66,994

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Steve Jobs

technology

10,908

1,931

I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.

Eva Herzigova

alone

4,605

70,223

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

Michael Mandelbaum

trust

8,336

45,551

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

Bill Cosby

men

9,128

912

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Luciano Pavarotti

age

7,946

15,929

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

education

9,379

59,171

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Arthur Wellesley

religion

5,338

48,986

I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.

Maud Welzen

morning

687

52,617

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Dave Barry

patriotism

3,607

60,016

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Brian Ferneyhough

respect

2,676

72,752

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

wisdom

8,946

9,755

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

Beth Ditto

change

6,779

43,824

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

love

2,902

41,560

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

Tom Glazer

legal

5,741

71,117

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Steve Martin

truth

1,675

22,533

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Natan Sharansky

fear

6,581

36,975

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Adam Smith

humor

4,654

42,961

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine

love

7,057

39,389

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

George Mikes

knowledge

9,630

43,973

I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Rose Kennedy

marriage

8,971

18,615

The only failure is not to try.

George Clooney

failure

4,364

43,221

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

love

5,074

34,056

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

history

5,847

10,907

We aren't cool and never will be.

Chris Martin

cool

8,720

72,882

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

wisdom

9,205

74,715

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

work

11,533

56,319

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

Aloe Blacc

positive

2,609

5,828

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

beauty

11,474

6,355

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

best

7,505

29,239

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

good

10,276

28,451

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Richard P. Feynman

god

9,194

21,928

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Patrick Henry

fear

9,176

70,848

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

truth

6,828

5,024

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Malcolm Mclaren

attitude

7,805

37,244

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

Teddy Thompson

humor

2,446

19,635

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Luis Fortuno

faith

7,309

62,955

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

society

1,003

11,953

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Joe Scarborough

courage

11,213

55,368

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Nigel Farage

politics

1,502

50,853

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Roy H. Williams

music

633

73,735

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Alex Comfort

women

1,061

15,284

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Jane Pauley

dreams

9,880

59,153

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Mary Douglas

religion

6,677

64,641

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

strength

9,362

46,756

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

Susana Martinez

mom

2,230

43,568

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman

love

849

52,331

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

Padma Lakshmi

parenting

7,513

13,257

I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.

Jared Padalecki

dating

7,236

56,428

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

power

1,463

68,384

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

Charlie Sheen

time

9,466

50,420

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Henry Miller

music

8,559

8,126

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Dennis Miller

business

3,859

17,038

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

equality

245

35,515

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Redd Foxx

home

8,219

22,032

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola

fear

9,941

17,739

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

John Mayer

experience

769

54,643

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

James Laughlin

poetry

9,433

74,384

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Kate Millett

women

10,115

15,463

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

Karlie Kloss

dreams

3,018

3,252

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Lucy Alibar

anger

3,349

4,088

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

art

4,935

31,367

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

great

4,155

64,825

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

Wesley Snipes

strength

2,788

4,243

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

Jerry Saltz

art

10,901

29,468

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Charles M. Schulz

good

6,536

22,225

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

fear

5,654

29,547

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

good

742

21,061

I will either be famous or infamous.

Otto Dix

famous

3,551

16,725

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

John Strachan

education

6,167

12,649

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

Chris Isaak

dad

9,139

37,223

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

humor

10,250

29,546

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

good

1,818

47,452

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash

money

795

70,397

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

John Anderson

trust

5,685

51,946

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

nature

5,680

5,085

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Cory Lidle

attitude

3,155

23,982

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Henry L. Stimson

food

8,662

24,463

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

freedom

4,903

32,011

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

happiness

7,822

18,135

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Josh Radnor

experience

4,315

73,303

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

wisdom

2,171

22,646

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Robert Trout

fear