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1,846	19,365	I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.	Cat Stevens	faith
9,183	15,773	War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.	John Cory	dreams
701	18,852	I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.	Natalie Goldberg	failure
10,355	67,139	If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.	James Dyson	technology
3,727	46,388	My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.	Amy Sedaris	mom
1,203	25,774	When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.	Rita Rudner	funny
7,536	66,383	What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.	Thomas Carlyle	teacher
3,898	49,105	You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.	Woodrow Wilson	motivational
6,912	68,675	My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.	Hillary Clinton	time
9,419	43,348	Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?	Friedrich Nietzsche	love
11,365	19,011	Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	faith
6,965	64,799	The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.	Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero	strength
6,023	27,358	Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.	Jennifer Granholm	future
9,753	11,040	My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.	Jessica Brown Findlay	cool
10,252	54,581	My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.	Jack Bowman	poetry
223	28,122	I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.	Joel Osteen	god
7,242	29,182	In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.	Sun Tzu	good
2,456	56,584	Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.	Voltaire	power
9,650	29,387	Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.	Kevin Eubanks	good
9,486	45,839	A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.	Walt Whitman	men
9,245	44,114	One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.	Honore de Balzac	marriage
5,112	64,423	I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.	Michael Michele	sports
636	55,744	There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'	John Sayles	politics
2,049	41,561	A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.	Sol Wachtler	legal
6,209	59,819	I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.	Dan Rather	respect
9,492	3,572	I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.	Alex Winter	architecture
317	53,494	Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.	Gerry Adams	peace
11,146	44,879	Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.	Cass Canfield	medical
1,382	44,854	Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.	Erma Bombeck	medical
3,335	9,415	Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	change
6,310	48,033	The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.	Steve Wynn	money
4,062	5,490	Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.	David Hume	beauty
7,623	34,263	It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.	V. S. Naipaul	history
1,175	72,254	I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.	George Porter	war
8,567	524	The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.	Vivienne Westwood	age
10,261	54,939	They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.	Clare Boothe Luce	politics
4,333	64,523	Silence is a source of great strength.	Lao Tzu	strength
471	68,597	Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.	Napoleon Bonaparte	time
3,616	23,569	I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.	Brad Renfro	food
10,500	14,699	Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.	B. J. Novak	design
1,815	25,111	I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.	Robert M. Gates	freedom
2,790	39,872	It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.	Marc Davis	knowledge
7,105	8,507	I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.	Marc Jacobs	car
10,634	55,486	But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.	Jane Campion	politics
8,280	47,729	I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'	Demetri Martin	money
3,776	27,008	What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.	Paul Ryan	future
1,878	59,960	There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.	James D'arcy	respect
11,265	68,764	People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.	Chinua Achebe	time
476	38,303	We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.	Timothy Leary	intelligence
5,584	68,900	To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.	Ricky Williams	time
8,291	72,808	The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.	Jean Paul	wisdom
9,926	48,323	I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.	Cameron Diaz	morning
6,055	7,608	Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'	William J. Clinton	business
2,499	74,404	God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.	Adam Sandler	women
4,191	72,745	There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.	Benjamin Franklin	wisdom
4,936	38,275	The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.	Bill Watterson	intelligence
2,158	4,032	There is nothing new in art except talent.	Anton Chekhov	art
194	69,984	I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.	Joss Whedon	trust
4,753	1,699	Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.	Isocrates	alone
6,334	37,219	I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.	Josh Gad	humor
6,734	50,034	Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.	Julie Bowen	movies
3,756	45,336	Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	men
1,246	49,873	Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.	Jonah Hill	movies
6,013	3,386	Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.	Richard Rogers	architecture
4,124	45,455	Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.	Marilyn Monroe	men
5,906	38,626	We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.	Peter King	intelligence
1,008	28,707	On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.	Tim Tebow	god
2,100	56,692	We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.	Calvin Coolidge	power
1,503	47,423	The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.	Karl Marx	money
1,746	32,661	To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.	Thomas Traherne	happiness
6,806	31,517	You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.	Stevie Nicks	great
10,212	16,881	Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.	David Suzuki	environmental
11,749	32,888	Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.	Buddha	health
6,291	24,067	People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.	Bill Cosby	forgiveness
8,015	15,646	I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.	Joel Kinnaman	dreams
7,450	36,623	I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.	Howard Nemerov	hope
5,836	66,531	I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.	Carl Rogers	teacher
5,644	50,759	Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.	Jesse Jackson	music
10,307	68,818	Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.	Jon Bon Jovi	time
10,920	11,395	Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.	Devon Werkheiser	cool
1,258	61,048	I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.	Rainn Wilson	sad
2,048	42,449	Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?	Marilyn Monroe	life
10,044	12,753	Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.	Dhani Harrison	dad
757	51,355	I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.	Claude Monet	nature
4,950	74,600	Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.	Dale Carnegie	work
7,632	55,900	When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.	Iain Duncan Smith	positive
1,636	55,339	We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.	James McGreevey	politics
8,060	57,762	But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.	John le Carre	relationship
11,022	11,740	The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.	Paul Tillich	courage
8,858	62,576	Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.	Nhat Hanh	smile
11,042	75,543	I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.	Diane Kruger	christmas
7,319	31,141	Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.	Abdul Kalam	great
8,584	62,252	I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.	Donald Norman	science
3,615	60,577	I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.	Conrad Hall	romantic
4,599	40,752	Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.	Lord Chesterfield	learning
4,317	13,262	My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.	Tyson Gay	dating
183	6,765	The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.	Eric Hoffer	best
9,834	9,362	A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.	Edmund Burke	change
1,544	44,645	After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.	Kyra Sedgwick	marriage
4,104	69,623	I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.	Uri Geller	travel

1,846

19,365

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Cat Stevens

faith

9,183

15,773

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

John Cory

dreams

701

18,852

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Natalie Goldberg

failure

10,355

67,139

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

James Dyson

technology

3,727

46,388

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

Amy Sedaris

mom

1,203

25,774

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

funny

7,536

66,383

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

teacher

3,898

49,105

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

motivational

6,912

68,675

My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.

Hillary Clinton

time

9,419

43,348

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

Friedrich Nietzsche

love

11,365

19,011

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

faith

6,965

64,799

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

strength

6,023

27,358

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

Jennifer Granholm

future

9,753

11,040

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

Jessica Brown Findlay

cool

10,252

54,581

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

Jack Bowman

poetry

223

28,122

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Joel Osteen

god

7,242

29,182

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

good

2,456

56,584

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

power

9,650

29,387

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Kevin Eubanks

good

9,486

45,839

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

men

9,245

44,114

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

marriage

5,112

64,423

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Michael Michele

sports

636

55,744

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

John Sayles

politics

2,049

41,561

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

legal

6,209

59,819

I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

Dan Rather

respect

9,492

3,572

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Alex Winter

architecture

317

53,494

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

peace

11,146

44,879

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Cass Canfield

medical

1,382

44,854

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Erma Bombeck

medical

3,335

9,415

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

change

6,310

48,033

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Steve Wynn

money

4,062

5,490

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

beauty

7,623

34,263

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

V. S. Naipaul

history

1,175

72,254

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

George Porter

war

8,567

524

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Vivienne Westwood

age

10,261

54,939

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Boothe Luce

politics

4,333

64,523

Silence is a source of great strength.

Lao Tzu

strength

471

68,597

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

time

3,616

23,569

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

Brad Renfro

food

10,500

14,699

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

B. J. Novak

design

1,815

25,111

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Robert M. Gates

freedom

2,790

39,872

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Marc Davis

knowledge

7,105

8,507

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

Marc Jacobs

car

10,634

55,486

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Jane Campion

politics

8,280

47,729

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Demetri Martin

money

3,776

27,008

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Paul Ryan

future

1,878

59,960

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

James D'arcy

respect

11,265

68,764

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Chinua Achebe

time

476

38,303

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Timothy Leary

intelligence

5,584

68,900

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Ricky Williams

time

8,291

72,808

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul

wisdom

9,926

48,323

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

Cameron Diaz

morning

6,055

7,608

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

William J. Clinton

business

2,499

74,404

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Adam Sandler

women

4,191

72,745

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

wisdom

4,936

38,275

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

intelligence

2,158

4,032

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

art

194

69,984

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

Joss Whedon

trust

4,753

1,699

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Isocrates

alone

6,334

37,219

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Josh Gad

humor

6,734

50,034

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Julie Bowen

movies

3,756

45,336

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

men

1,246

49,873

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Jonah Hill

movies

6,013

3,386

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Richard Rogers

architecture

4,124

45,455

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Marilyn Monroe

men

5,906

38,626

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

Peter King

intelligence

1,008

28,707

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

Tim Tebow

god

2,100

56,692

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge

power

1,503

47,423

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Karl Marx

money

1,746

32,661

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Thomas Traherne

happiness

6,806

31,517

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Stevie Nicks

great

10,212

16,881

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

David Suzuki

environmental

11,749

32,888

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha

health

6,291

24,067

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Bill Cosby

forgiveness

8,015

15,646

I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.

Joel Kinnaman

dreams

7,450

36,623

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

hope

5,836

66,531

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Carl Rogers

teacher

5,644

50,759

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Jesse Jackson

music

10,307

68,818

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Jon Bon Jovi

time

10,920

11,395

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.

Devon Werkheiser

cool

1,258

61,048

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Rainn Wilson

sad

2,048

42,449

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Marilyn Monroe

life

10,044

12,753

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

Dhani Harrison

dad

757

51,355

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

nature

4,950

74,600

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

work

7,632

55,900

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

Iain Duncan Smith

positive

1,636

55,339

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

James McGreevey

politics

8,060

57,762

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

John le Carre

relationship

11,022

11,740

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Paul Tillich

courage

8,858

62,576

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Nhat Hanh

smile

11,042

75,543

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

christmas

7,319

31,141

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Abdul Kalam

great

8,584

62,252

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Donald Norman

science

3,615

60,577

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Conrad Hall

romantic

4,599

40,752

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

learning

4,317

13,262

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

Tyson Gay

dating

183

6,765

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Eric Hoffer

best

9,834

9,362

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke

change

1,544

44,645

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Kyra Sedgwick

marriage

4,104

69,623

I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

Uri Geller

travel