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11,067	12,306	I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'	Ralph Nader	dad
10,640	16,841	Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.	Cathy McMorris	environmental
1,137	45,038	Medical physics is an applied area of physics.	John Cameron	medical
8,065	61,781	The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.	Lord Acton	science
11,089	21,424	I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.	T-Pain	famous
11,541	63,431	But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.	Lascelles Abercrombie	society
9	2,032	Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?	John Leonard	amazing
4,511	42,233	A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.	John F. Kennedy	life
4,958	73,533	It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.	George Clooney	women
3,254	23,865	Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.	Paul Prudhomme	food
7,592	9,086	Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.	A. C. Benson	change
2,089	39,345	The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.	David Bailey	knowledge
10,767	13,048	Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.	Bobby Hull	dad
10,360	17,647	I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.	Mia Hamm	experience
7,669	3,166	Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.	Carl Hiaasen	anger
492	8,027	Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.	Russell Baker	business
1,668	32,723	The groundwork of all happiness is health.	Leigh Hunt	happiness
4,700	22,985	We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.	Alison Sweeney	fitness
168	75,896	Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.	Sandra Lee	thanksgiving
1,969	54,610	To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.	John Drinkwater	poetry
828	50,979	It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'	Beth Ditto	music
3,273	50,070	A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.	Joel Silver	movies
1,916	65,180	Strength lies not in defence but in attack.	Adolf Hitler	strength
7,036	33,770	Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.	Samuel Wilson	health
3,063	21,408	I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'	Archie Panjabi	famous
764	1,411	I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.	David Cameron	alone
2,656	6,781	Always do your best.	Miguel Angel Ruiz	best
9,151	12,230	All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.	Tiger Woods	dad
9,551	68,202	Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.	George Carlin	time
2,314	35,933	I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.	Michael Jordan	hope
1,041	61,847	My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.	James Dyson	science
7,787	27,513	The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.	Tim Berners-Lee	future
10,651	73,037	Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.	Lin Yutang	wisdom
665	35,607	The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.	Eden Ahbez	home
10,568	45,209	In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.	Charles Caleb Colton	men
6,045	74,432	It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.	Benjamin Franklin	work
2,057	12,571	In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.	Gillian Anderson	dad
4,182	21,860	To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.	Bertrand Russell	fear
4,475	40,587	You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.	Kim Kardashian	learning
3,389	33,670	Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.	Max Baucus	health
6,225	68,115	Know how to live the time that is given you.	Dario Fo	time
7,950	7,319	If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.	Robert H. Schuller	business
2,903	22,249	Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.	Samuel Ullman	fear
4,808	40,492	There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.	John Raleigh Mott	leadership
7,197	56,240	I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.	Gray Davis	positive
8,306	48,619	I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.	Francois Truffaut	morning
9,745	51,849	Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.	Aeschylus	nature
1,000	61,276	I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.	Dierks Bentley	sad
3,635	8,040	I'm not really in the excuse business.	Bill Parcells	business
9,067	5,268	A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.	Jean Ingelow	beauty
6,365	2,244	We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'	Alison Sweeney	amazing
1,587	19,493	The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.	Jim Wallis	faith
5,506	33,030	The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.	Jimmy Carter	health
11,642	40,882	Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.	Oliver Goldsmith	learning
5,127	14,063	The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.	A. N. Wilson	death
5,508	57,534	Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.	Dick Gregory	relationship
9,123	30,997	There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.	Aristotle	great
2,157	33,007	Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.	Ovid	health
2,958	59,084	It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.	Craig Bruce	religion
10,282	70,174	When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.	Itzhak Perlman	trust
2,236	7,029	Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	best
7,690	24,243	We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.	William Glasser	freedom
2,019	6,653	He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.	Samuel Butler	best
2,413	47,122	My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.	Little Milton	mom
2,915	69,591	When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.	Clifton Paul Fadiman	travel
10,408	41,317	Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.	Bonnie Blair	learning
2,454	53,322	You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.	Larry Brown	peace
2,832	29,061	The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.	Socrates	good
11,295	44,044	I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.	Kinky Friedman	marriage
7,068	51,388	We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.	Clarence Day	nature
4,561	10,401	The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!	Sumner Redstone	computers
1,554	65,487	The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.	Benjamin Disraeli	success
1,557	69,086	Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.	Ernest Hemingway	travel
3,586	51,327	And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.	Thomas Moore	nature
8,515	42,413	The unexamined life is not worth living.	Socrates	life
1,529	62,549	Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.	Cameron Diaz	smile
2,801	46,074	We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.	Jimmy Carter	men
4,829	44,574	I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.	Debra Messing	marriage
6,735	35,478	I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!	Harlan Coben	home
9,399	27,414	The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.	David R. Brower	future
3,344	28,102	Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.	Henry Ward Beecher	god
11,348	19,409	If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.	Muhammad Iqbal	faith
3,200	17,549	As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.	Al Gore	experience
1,244	21,982	In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.	Simone de Beauvoir	fear
11,206	36,151	I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.	Oscar Hammerstein II	hope
6,484	41,332	Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.	Tony Buzan	learning
1,857	65,452	One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.	Thomas A. Edison	success
8,222	26,528	I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.	Olivia Munn	funny
9,644	56,266	Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.	Norman Lamm	positive
3,133	66,087	Success comes in waves.	Guy Pearce	success
5,026	22,018	They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.	James Allen	fear
8,696	74,684	Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.	Theodore Roosevelt	work
3,315	65,839	And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.	Maximilian Schell	success
214	29,529	Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.	Thomas Carlyle	good
1,792	27,080	My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.	Bobby Darin	future
125	47,394	It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.	W. C. Fields	money
7,802	12,607	My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.	Matt Damon	dad
53	75,361	If you can laugh together, you can work together.	Robert Orben	work
8,420	40,738	Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.	Andre Breton	learning
10,445	41,315	Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.	Jamie Campbell Bower	learning

11,067

12,306

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Ralph Nader

dad

10,640

16,841

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

Cathy McMorris

environmental

1,137

45,038

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

John Cameron

medical

8,065

61,781

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Lord Acton

science

11,089

21,424

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

T-Pain

famous

11,541

63,431

But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Lascelles Abercrombie

society

9

2,032

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

amazing

4,511

42,233

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

life

4,958

73,533

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

George Clooney

women

3,254

23,865

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Paul Prudhomme

food

7,592

9,086

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

A. C. Benson

change

2,089

39,345

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

David Bailey

knowledge

10,767

13,048

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Bobby Hull

dad

10,360

17,647

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Mia Hamm

experience

7,669

3,166

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

Carl Hiaasen

anger

492

8,027

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Russell Baker

business

1,668

32,723

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Leigh Hunt

happiness

4,700

22,985

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

Alison Sweeney

fitness

168

75,896

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

Sandra Lee

thanksgiving

1,969

54,610

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater

poetry

828

50,979

It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

Beth Ditto

music

3,273

50,070

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

Joel Silver

movies

1,916

65,180

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Adolf Hitler

strength

7,036

33,770

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Samuel Wilson

health

3,063

21,408

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Archie Panjabi

famous

764

1,411

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

David Cameron

alone

2,656

6,781

Always do your best.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

best

9,151

12,230

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

Tiger Woods

dad

9,551

68,202

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

George Carlin

time

2,314

35,933

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

hope

1,041

61,847

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

James Dyson

science

7,787

27,513

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Tim Berners-Lee

future

10,651

73,037

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

wisdom

665

35,607

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Eden Ahbez

home

10,568

45,209

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

men

6,045

74,432

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

work

2,057

12,571

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

Gillian Anderson

dad

4,182

21,860

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

fear

4,475

40,587

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

Kim Kardashian

learning

3,389

33,670

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Max Baucus

health

6,225

68,115

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Dario Fo

time

7,950

7,319

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

business

2,903

22,249

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Samuel Ullman

fear

4,808

40,492

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

John Raleigh Mott

leadership

7,197

56,240

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Gray Davis

positive

8,306

48,619

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Francois Truffaut

morning

9,745

51,849

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Aeschylus

nature

1,000

61,276

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

Dierks Bentley

sad

3,635

8,040

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Bill Parcells

business

9,067

5,268

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow

beauty

6,365

2,244

We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'

Alison Sweeney

amazing

1,587

19,493

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Jim Wallis

faith

5,506

33,030

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Jimmy Carter

health

11,642

40,882

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

learning

5,127

14,063

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

A. N. Wilson

death

5,508

57,534

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Dick Gregory

relationship

9,123

30,997

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

great

2,157

33,007

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Ovid

health

2,958

59,084

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

Craig Bruce

religion

10,282

70,174

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Itzhak Perlman

trust

2,236

7,029

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

best

7,690

24,243

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

William Glasser

freedom

2,019

6,653

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler

best

2,413

47,122

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Little Milton

mom

2,915

69,591

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

travel

10,408

41,317

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Bonnie Blair

learning

2,454

53,322

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

Larry Brown

peace

2,832

29,061

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

good

11,295

44,044

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Kinky Friedman

marriage

7,068

51,388

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Clarence Day

nature

4,561

10,401

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

Sumner Redstone

computers

1,554

65,487

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

success

1,557

69,086

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

travel

3,586

51,327

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

nature

8,515

42,413

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

life

1,529

62,549

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

Cameron Diaz

smile

2,801

46,074

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Jimmy Carter

men

4,829

44,574

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

Debra Messing

marriage

6,735

35,478

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

Harlan Coben

home

9,399

27,414

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

David R. Brower

future

3,344

28,102

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beecher

god

11,348

19,409

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Muhammad Iqbal

faith

3,200

17,549

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Al Gore

experience

1,244

21,982

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Simone de Beauvoir

fear

11,206

36,151

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Oscar Hammerstein II

hope

6,484

41,332

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Tony Buzan

learning

1,857

65,452

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

success

8,222

26,528

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

Olivia Munn

funny

9,644

56,266

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

positive

3,133

66,087

Success comes in waves.

Guy Pearce

success

5,026

22,018

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

James Allen

fear

8,696

74,684

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Theodore Roosevelt

work

3,315

65,839

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Maximilian Schell

success

214

29,529

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

Thomas Carlyle

good

1,792

27,080

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin

future

125

47,394

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

W. C. Fields

money

7,802

12,607

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Matt Damon

dad

53

75,361

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Robert Orben

work

8,420

40,738

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Andre Breton

learning

10,445

41,315

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

Jamie Campbell Bower

learning