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Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst
hope
10,545
58,286
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
Steven Hatfill
relationship
8,736
4,158
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
art
5,876
52,801
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
peace
2,301
20,903
But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.
Julius Erving
family
3,883
23,058
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
food
7,471
53,285
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
John Boehner
peace
9,929
24,178
The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
Joe Nichols
forgiveness
3,131
64,269
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
Alexander Ludwig
sports
5,732
25,232
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
friendship
3,669
38,719
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
Ferdinand Mount
intelligence
2,888
16,957
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
Anna Lindh
environmental
8,687
60,759
I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?
Emeli Sande
romantic
2,769
67,761
Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.
Robert McFarlane
technology
7,050
51,249
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
nature
8,646
7,211
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara
birthday
4,386
51,648
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats
nature
1,207
48,349
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
Bono
morning
6,777
75,672
So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.
Peter Jurasik
christmas
10,956
67,346
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Major Owens
technology
6,733
19,626
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
Emilio Estevez
faith
5,398
954
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Patrick J. Kennedy
age
11,081
39,080
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
knowledge
683
22,669
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
Michelle Bachelet
fear
4,273
15,288
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
Suze Orman
dreams
583
68,437
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton
time
7,821
72,057
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
Madeleine Albright
war
7,073
8,479
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Russell Baker
car
10,168
6,008
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
Sharon Tate
beauty
9,120
23,880
People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
Rene Redzepi
food
4,715
28,124
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo
god
10,716
73,072
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
wisdom
611
16,448
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
Minoru Yamasaki
education
8,026
44,707
You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
Chris Kyle
marriage
3,237
11,217
Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
Lizzy Caplan
cool
10,911
74,790
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
work
2,534
56,738
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
power
2,643
63,583
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
Kevin Smith
society
4,217
17,156
Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
Jack Kemp
equality
6,723
50,843
Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
Shaun White
music
5,135
56,165
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
Genevieve Gorder
positive
9,296
32,346
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
happiness
645
573
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Jeanne Moreau
age
6,924
58,193
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
Brandi Chastain
relationship
5,731
52,403
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian
patience
2,590
12,829
If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.
Chris Robinson
dad
5,832
47,292
Remember that credit is money.
Benjamin Franklin
money
9,596
59,077
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
Steven Seagal
religion
8,893
42,580
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
life
8,806
30,611
And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
Rafik Hariri
government
4,947
24,223
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson
freedom
10,949
11,977
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
Major Taylor
courage
10,627
14,782
I don't believe in fad diets.
Jenny Craig
diet
2,742
68,811
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
time
7,507
4,417
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens
art
397
17,192
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams
equality
514
16,688
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Nat King Cole
education
9,053
17,867
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
experience
527
35,318
I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.
Emmanuelle Beart
home
3,153
63,182
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
Jack Kemp
society
7,559
72,167
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais
war
4,079
9,341
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins
change
3,037
2,689
Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
Evangeline Lilly
amazing
6,673
28,549
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
god
8,563
21,720
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
fear
2,978
6,172
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
best
8,814
55,793
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Elizabeth Edwards
positive
9,207
41,587
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
legal
8,218
65,529
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim Carrey
success
5,708
41,203
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
learning
10,318
19,437
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Benjamin Carson
faith
6,752
832
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
Nikki Giovanni
age
9,988
38,559
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
Kevin Kelly
intelligence
3,074
13,912
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Abbie Hoffman
death
2,960
16,077
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
Tom Stoppard
education
6,284
48,902
For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
Chris Pine
morning
5,158
63,197
It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
Kesha
society
4,119
71,694
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
war
4,100
39,716
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Avicenna
knowledge
10,159
6,077
I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
Jerry Mathers
beauty
7,164
73,682
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
Dave Barry
women
5,624
70,129
Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.
Ryan Seacrest
trust
10,178
3,617
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
Philip Warren Anderson
architecture
5,084
52,648
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
patriotism
11,006
31,813
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
James Russell Lowell
great
3,827
50,251
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
music
2,863
6,680
The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.
Ronnie James Dio
best
11,209
31,023
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao Tzu
great
8,391
7,743
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson
business
2,777
52,565
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Charles Churchill
patience
6,366
67,500
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
Michael K. Powell
technology
5,520
23,174
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
food
906
34,698
I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
Rahm Emanuel
history
9,381
69,137
The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.
Glenn Tipton
travel
10,699
72,048
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Howard Zinn
war
5,865
62,263
We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
James D. Watson
science
3,538
9,411
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard
change
10,400
47,544
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Hedy Lamarr
money
589
18,725
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens
failure
4,158
11,426
I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.
Craig Roberts
cool