c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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10,804	5,412	People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?	Imelda Marcos	beauty
2,731	37,670	Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.	Joseph Franklin Rutherford	imagination
2,026	43,595	He that is jealous is not in love.	Saint Augustine	love
2,279	38,139	Give light and people will find the way.	Ella Baker	inspirational
4,038	69,122	We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.	Hilaire Belloc	travel
9,250	43,889	A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.	John Steinbeck	marriage
850	6,418	The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.	Dale Carnegie	best
11,382	4,353	When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.	Jerry Saltz	art
8,809	35,671	When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?	Jane Smiley	home
1,051	52,059	No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.	Joni Mitchell	nature
9,699	73,234	The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.	Stephen Gardiner	wisdom
5,755	44,506	I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.	Darrell Royal	marriage
11,629	61,114	It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.	Dario Argento	sad
1,481	8,994	We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.	John Surtees	car
2,786	74,829	I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.	Ray Bradbury	work
4,609	33,870	90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.	Colin Powell	history
5,693	51,164	I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.	Lea Michele	music
2,642	52,301	I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.	Jill Clayburgh	parenting
9,631	15,414	Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.	John Battelle	dreams
7,766	31,890	Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.	Andy Rooney	happiness
9,385	48,664	I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.	Zooey Deschanel	morning
11,401	48,834	I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.	Heather Morris	morning
8,635	64,676	When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?	Aeschylus	strength
227	2,956	Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.	Buddha	anger
951	47,645	As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.	David Korten	money
2,323	17,117	I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.	Jimmy Carter	equality
734	62,959	It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	society
8,658	8,341	Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.	James Norman Hall	car
7,997	5,767	I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.	Rachel Bilson	beauty
2,628	13,677	For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.	Sophocles	death
5,563	7,843	In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.	Barbara Corcoran	business
6,316	73,548	I think women are excellent social critics.	Laurie Anderson	women
2,553	50,848	Country music is three chords and the truth.	Harlan Howard	music
9,727	43,881	Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.	Bill Cosby	marriage
11,468	67,472	The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.	Edward Tufte	technology
3,277	5,731	My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.	Shay Mitchell	beauty
9,299	52,762	The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	peace
7,042	24,471	Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.	William F. Buckley, Jr.	freedom
6,915	46,151	Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.	Billy Graham	mom
1,486	26,478	I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.	Rachel Roy	funny
5,569	8,721	I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.	Victoria Principal	car
9,353	29,133	There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.	Robert Louis Stevenson	good
3,683	65,777	I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.	Kevin Mitnick	success
6,355	69,204	The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.	Ted Nugent	travel
1,314	24,701	We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.	Jesse Ventura	freedom
4,662	75,890	I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.	Todd Barry	thanksgiving
424	29,438	You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.	Vin Diesel	good
8,786	41,849	The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.	David Minge	legal
9,657	24,738	No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.	Andre Breton	freedom
343	51,889	Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.	Marquis de Sade	nature
10,418	42,829	Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.	Pope Paul VI	life
5,805	48,258	Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.	Gilbert Parker	morning
634	49,856	Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.	Robert Rodriguez	movies
6,803	31,420	The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.	Blaise Pascal	great
11,204	6,168	God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.	Jim Elliot	best
2,385	5,637	Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.	Gabrielle Union	beauty
10,926	53,536	The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.	Jim Harrison	peace
10,508	74,735	Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.	Napoleon Hill	work
7,753	57,028	I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.	Saint Teresa of Avila	power
11,035	7,707	Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.	Justin Bieber	business
6,845	59,756	As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.	Kristin Scott Thomas	respect
7,446	14,961	Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.	Rube Goldberg	diet
173	10,169	The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.	William Ellery Channing	communication
10,156	40,817	I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.	David Duchovny	learning
1,416	65,666	The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.	James Thurber	success
6,362	57,158	It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'	Pat Robertson	power
9,337	34,445	You're going to relegate my history to a month.	Morgan Freeman	history
2,828	59,115	The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.	Randall Terry	religion
10,846	67,907	If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.	Max Irons	teen
4,309	58,514	A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.	Aristotle	religion
8,558	9,413	The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.	Jim DeMint	change
1,890	55,521	The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.	Kathryn Bigelow	politics
7,291	75,621	From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.	Christie Hefner	christmas
1,162	66,198	Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.	Orison Swett Marden	sympathy
8,556	18,961	The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.	Anna Garlin Spencer	failure
1,177	70,775	I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.	Barack Obama	truth
6,135	14,979	'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'	Mike Moreno	diet
4,869	17,573	My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.	Thomas Huxley	experience
1,245	13,314	Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.	Elie Wiesel	death
4,586	54,631	I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.	Knut Hamsun	poetry
1,377	15,431	In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.	Bianca Jagger	dreams
8,891	64,158	As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.	Sheryl Swoopes	sports
596	74,049	I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.	Nicholas Sparks	women
9,802	59,414	One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.	Bryant H. McGill	respect
3,054	18,007	Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.	Joyce Carol Oates	experience
5,490	17,580	Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.	Eric Hoffer	experience
4,187	24,492	There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	freedom
2,471	41,514	Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.	Honore de Balzac	legal
4,593	29,136	A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.	Thomas Paine	good
7,381	21,212	Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'	Rachel Weisz	famous
9,609	68,133	The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.	Paul Valery	time
10,155	30,760	My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.	Jim Evans	graduation
10,746	10,204	To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.	Rowan D. Williams	communication
9,443	53,797	I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.	Jeanette Winterson	pet
7,186	59,926	Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.	Brian Austin Green	respect
73	26,819	I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.	Donald Trump	future
8,097	57,954	If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.	George Carey	relationship
7,013	56,905	The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.	Augustus Hare	power
3,809	47,646	A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.	Alveda King	money
319	13,134	I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.	Kelly Osbourne	dating

10,804

5,412

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Imelda Marcos

beauty

2,731

37,670

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

imagination

2,026

43,595

He that is jealous is not in love.

Saint Augustine

love

2,279

38,139

Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker

inspirational

4,038

69,122

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

travel

9,250

43,889

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

John Steinbeck

marriage

850

6,418

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Dale Carnegie

best

11,382

4,353

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Jerry Saltz

art

8,809

35,671

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

Jane Smiley

home

1,051

52,059

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Joni Mitchell

nature

9,699

73,234

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

wisdom

5,755

44,506

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

Darrell Royal

marriage

11,629

61,114

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Dario Argento

sad

1,481

8,994

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

John Surtees

car

2,786

74,829

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Ray Bradbury

work

4,609

33,870

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

history

5,693

51,164

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

Lea Michele

music

2,642

52,301

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

parenting

9,631

15,414

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

John Battelle

dreams

7,766

31,890

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

happiness

9,385

48,664

I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

Zooey Deschanel

morning

11,401

48,834

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.

Heather Morris

morning

8,635

64,676

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Aeschylus

strength

227

2,956

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

anger

951

47,645

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

David Korten

money

2,323

17,117

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Jimmy Carter

equality

734

62,959

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

society

8,658

8,341

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

James Norman Hall

car

7,997

5,767

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Rachel Bilson

beauty

2,628

13,677

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Sophocles

death

5,563

7,843

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Barbara Corcoran

business

6,316

73,548

I think women are excellent social critics.

Laurie Anderson

women

2,553

50,848

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard

music

9,727

43,881

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Bill Cosby

marriage

11,468

67,472

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

Edward Tufte

technology

3,277

5,731

My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.

Shay Mitchell

beauty

9,299

52,762

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

peace

7,042

24,471

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

freedom

6,915

46,151

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Billy Graham

mom

1,486

26,478

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

Rachel Roy

funny

5,569

8,721

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

Victoria Principal

car

9,353

29,133

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

good

3,683

65,777

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.

Kevin Mitnick

success

6,355

69,204

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Ted Nugent

travel

1,314

24,701

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Jesse Ventura

freedom

4,662

75,890

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Todd Barry

thanksgiving

424

29,438

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Vin Diesel

good

8,786

41,849

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

David Minge

legal

9,657

24,738

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Andre Breton

freedom

343

51,889

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Marquis de Sade

nature

10,418

42,829

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Pope Paul VI

life

5,805

48,258

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.

Gilbert Parker

morning

634

49,856

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Robert Rodriguez

movies

6,803

31,420

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Blaise Pascal

great

11,204

6,168

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Jim Elliot

best

2,385

5,637

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Gabrielle Union

beauty

10,926

53,536

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Jim Harrison

peace

10,508

74,735

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

work

7,753

57,028

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa of Avila

power

11,035

7,707

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

Justin Bieber

business

6,845

59,756

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

respect

7,446

14,961

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Rube Goldberg

diet

173

10,169

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

William Ellery Channing

communication

10,156

40,817

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

David Duchovny

learning

1,416

65,666

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Thurber

success

6,362

57,158

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Pat Robertson

power

9,337

34,445

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Morgan Freeman

history

2,828

59,115

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

Randall Terry

religion

10,846

67,907

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Max Irons

teen

4,309

58,514

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle

religion

8,558

9,413

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

Jim DeMint

change

1,890

55,521

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

Kathryn Bigelow

politics

7,291

75,621

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Christie Hefner

christmas

1,162

66,198

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Orison Swett Marden

sympathy

8,556

18,961

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

failure

1,177

70,775

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

Barack Obama

truth

6,135

14,979

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

Mike Moreno

diet

4,869

17,573

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Thomas Huxley

experience

1,245

13,314

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Elie Wiesel

death

4,586

54,631

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun

poetry

1,377

15,431

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Bianca Jagger

dreams

8,891

64,158

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.

Sheryl Swoopes

sports

596

74,049

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

Nicholas Sparks

women

9,802

59,414

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

respect

3,054

18,007

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

experience

5,490

17,580

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Eric Hoffer

experience

4,187

24,492

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

freedom

2,471

41,514

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

legal

4,593

29,136

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

good

7,381

21,212

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Rachel Weisz

famous

9,609

68,133

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

time

10,155

30,760

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

Jim Evans

graduation

10,746

10,204

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Rowan D. Williams

communication

9,443

53,797

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

pet

7,186

59,926

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

Brian Austin Green

respect

73

26,819

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald Trump

future

8,097

57,954

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

George Carey

relationship

7,013

56,905

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Augustus Hare

power

3,809

47,646

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

Alveda King

money

319

13,134

I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.

Kelly Osbourne

dating