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11,136	61,090	Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.	Natalie Imbruglia	sad
1,358	15,270	There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.	Tyra Banks	dreams
1,855	35,345	The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.	Jessica Lange	home
8,950	41,491	Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.	Nelson Goodman	learning
3,896	17,466	Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.	Francis Bacon	experience
246	12,002	In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.	Michael Servetus	courage
10,279	43,131	All love is lost but upon God alone.	William Dunbar	love
6,325	1,978	Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.	Naveen Jain	alone
7,304	51,577	Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.	E. O. Wilson	nature
6,144	21,351	I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.	Taraji P. Henson	famous
4,297	58,570	Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.	Arthur Schopenhauer	religion
3,301	30,333	I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.	William J. Clinton	government
11,218	27,348	I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.	Jane Smiley	future
1,505	70,281	I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.	Christine Keeler	trust
11,138	39,848	As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.	Jurgen Klinsmann	knowledge
10,271	31,710	India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.	Sri Aurobindo	great
1,347	38,610	I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.	Jim Ramstad	intelligence
5,509	66,215	The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.	Washington Irving	sympathy
6,226	49,440	I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.	Ryan Gosling	movies
11,408	56,055	If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.	Bill Parcells	positive
1,520	71,133	Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.	Mary Todd Lincoln	truth
267	6,460	The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.	David Icke	best
965	46,322	And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.	Chris Christie	mom
6,721	72,688	I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.	Jim Lampley	wedding
11,129	45,511	Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.	George Bernard Shaw	men
3,130	1,278	I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.	Henry Rollins	alone
8,376	40,579	We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.	Lucy Maud Montgomery	learning
6,851	48,015	What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.	Lisa Bonet	money
3,833	70,198	The essence of good government is trust.	Kathleen Sebelius	trust
962	50,476	Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.	Meat Loaf	music
6,511	21,390	I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.	Alicia Silverstone	famous
1,591	35,948	Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.	Elbert Hubbard	hope
9,432	40,597	I am still learning.	Michelangelo	learning
8,211	33,663	And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.	William Scranton	health
6,392	34,303	You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.	Etta James	history
3,268	31,609	Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.	Daniel J. Boorstin	great
8,480	52,748	It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.	Eleanor Roosevelt	peace
953	8,613	My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'	Amber Heard	car
5,306	52,081	And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.	Adam Weishaupt	nature
10,384	1,872	I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.	Jeff Ross	alone
10,823	21,149	I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.	Jane Siberry	famous
1,191	3,642	True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.	Albert Einstein	art
1,399	33,043	What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?	Adam Smith	health
5,956	66,511	The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.	Amos Bronson Alcott	teacher
5,129	11,518	Courage is found in unlikely places.	J. R. R. Tolkien	courage
10,111	6,907	Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.	Juliette Gordon Low	best
10,272	37,070	In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.	Jeremy Renner	humor
709	31,401	Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.	Jim Harrison	great
8,530	51,656	Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.	Francis Bacon	nature
1,077	39,593	His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.	William Shenstone	knowledge
6,276	51,494	Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.	Warren Buffett	nature
3,796	6,546	The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.	Deepak Chopra	best
10,729	74,316	No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.	Julie Burchill	women
421	54,205	When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.	Mario Batali	poetry
2,101	56,113	I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.	Roger Goodell	positive
5,851	23,074	Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.	Sai Baba	food
7,463	20,594	What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.	Danica McKellar	family
7,655	36,391	There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.	Luc de Clapiers	hope
3,378	54,807	My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.	John F. Kennedy	politics
2,749	35,645	Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.	Rowan Atkinson	home
7,375	29,540	One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.	Donald Trump	good
2,031	70,138	I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!	Mila Kunis	trust
2,096	3,138	I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.	Maxine Waters	anger
6,248	12,351	My dad was a Methodist minister.	George McGovern	dad
7,303	6,320	Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.	Henry David Thoreau	best
5,700	41,608	Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.	Rahm Emanuel	legal
4,587	35,676	My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.	Thomas Friedman	home
10,531	34,101	If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.	Rudyard Kipling	history
7,167	29,194	When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.	Will Rogers	good
7,904	23,012	I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.	Marcia Cross	fitness
10,339	62,519	When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.	Louis C. K.	smile
87	65,058	We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.	Josefa Iloilo	strength
2,355	73,547	A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.	Marion Jones	women
184	67,203	I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.	Patrick Stewart	technology
4,554	60,533	On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.	Mindy Kaling	romantic
10,718	74,086	Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.	Barbara Bush	women
7,069	28,333	We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.	Dwight L. Moody	god
5,705	36,457	Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?	King Abdullah II	hope
9,230	58,319	There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.	Mohammed Morsi	relationship
3,206	62,953	The most violent element in society is ignorance.	Emma Goldman	society
7,280	63,364	If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.	Gloria Steinem	society
1,703	18,784	The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.	Michael Mandelbaum	failure
7,815	19,235	It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.	Blaise Pascal	faith
9,024	46,209	My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.	Ben Affleck	mom
11,053	55,260	Without alienation, there can be no politics.	Arthur Miller	politics
9,835	18,208	There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.	Gary Gygax	experience
4,247	62,509	Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	smile
9,957	68,751	For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.	Margaret Mead	time
2,234	41,136	It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.	Trevor Dunn	learning
6,114	8,512	I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.	Roland Gift	car
9,821	60,320	The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.	Mercy Otis Warren	respect
9,452	66,266	The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.	Irving Babbitt	sympathy
3,731	69,597	I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.	Patricia Velasquez	travel
6,628	35,563	The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.	Dick Wolf	home
4,795	9,805	When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.	Dee Dee Myers	change
6,388	3,401	Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.	Marcus V. Pollio	architecture
566	41,274	I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.	K. Eric Drexler	learning
10,395	11,253	You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.	Jake Johnson	cool
8,364	48,146	Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.	Kevyn Aucoin	morning
3,560	3,998	What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.	Rabindranath Tagore	art

11,136

61,090

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

Natalie Imbruglia

sad

1,358

15,270

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.

Tyra Banks

dreams

1,855

35,345

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

home

8,950

41,491

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

Nelson Goodman

learning

3,896

17,466

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon

experience

246

12,002

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

Michael Servetus

courage

10,279

43,131

All love is lost but upon God alone.

William Dunbar

love

6,325

1,978

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

alone

7,304

51,577

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

E. O. Wilson

nature

6,144

21,351

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

Taraji P. Henson

famous

4,297

58,570

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

religion

3,301

30,333

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

William J. Clinton

government

11,218

27,348

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Jane Smiley

future

1,505

70,281

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Christine Keeler

trust

11,138

39,848

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Jurgen Klinsmann

knowledge

10,271

31,710

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo

great

1,347

38,610

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Jim Ramstad

intelligence

5,509

66,215

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

sympathy

6,226

49,440

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

Ryan Gosling

movies

11,408

56,055

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

Bill Parcells

positive

1,520

71,133

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Mary Todd Lincoln

truth

267

6,460

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

David Icke

best

965

46,322

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Chris Christie

mom

6,721

72,688

I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

Jim Lampley

wedding

11,129

45,511

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

George Bernard Shaw

men

3,130

1,278

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Henry Rollins

alone

8,376

40,579

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

learning

6,851

48,015

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Lisa Bonet

money

3,833

70,198

The essence of good government is trust.

Kathleen Sebelius

trust

962

50,476

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

Meat Loaf

music

6,511

21,390

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Alicia Silverstone

famous

1,591

35,948

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Elbert Hubbard

hope

9,432

40,597

I am still learning.

Michelangelo

learning

8,211

33,663

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

William Scranton

health

6,392

34,303

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Etta James

history

3,268

31,609

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

great

8,480

52,748

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

peace

953

8,613

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Amber Heard

car

5,306

52,081

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Adam Weishaupt

nature

10,384

1,872

I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.

Jeff Ross

alone

10,823

21,149

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Jane Siberry

famous

1,191

3,642

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

art

1,399

33,043

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

health

5,956

66,511

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Amos Bronson Alcott

teacher

5,129

11,518

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien

courage

10,111

6,907

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

Juliette Gordon Low

best

10,272

37,070

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Jeremy Renner

humor

709

31,401

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

great

8,530

51,656

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

nature

1,077

39,593

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

William Shenstone

knowledge

6,276

51,494

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

nature

3,796

6,546

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Deepak Chopra

best

10,729

74,316

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

Julie Burchill

women

421

54,205

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Mario Batali

poetry

2,101

56,113

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

Roger Goodell

positive

5,851

23,074

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Sai Baba

food

7,463

20,594

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

Danica McKellar

family

7,655

36,391

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc de Clapiers

hope

3,378

54,807

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John F. Kennedy

politics

2,749

35,645

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

Rowan Atkinson

home

7,375

29,540

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Donald Trump

good

2,031

70,138

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

Mila Kunis

trust

2,096

3,138

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

anger

6,248

12,351

My dad was a Methodist minister.

George McGovern

dad

7,303

6,320

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

best

5,700

41,608

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

Rahm Emanuel

legal

4,587

35,676

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Thomas Friedman

home

10,531

34,101

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

history

7,167

29,194

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers

good

7,904

23,012

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

Marcia Cross

fitness

10,339

62,519

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

Louis C. K.

smile

87

65,058

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Josefa Iloilo

strength

2,355

73,547

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

Marion Jones

women

184

67,203

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Patrick Stewart

technology

4,554

60,533

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

Mindy Kaling

romantic

10,718

74,086

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Barbara Bush

women

7,069

28,333

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Dwight L. Moody

god

5,705

36,457

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

King Abdullah II

hope

9,230

58,319

There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.

Mohammed Morsi

relationship

3,206

62,953

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

society

7,280

63,364

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Gloria Steinem

society

1,703

18,784

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Michael Mandelbaum

failure

7,815

19,235

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Blaise Pascal

faith

9,024

46,209

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

Ben Affleck

mom

11,053

55,260

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Arthur Miller

politics

9,835

18,208

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

Gary Gygax

experience

4,247

62,509

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

smile

9,957

68,751

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

time

2,234

41,136

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Trevor Dunn

learning

6,114

8,512

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Roland Gift

car

9,821

60,320

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Mercy Otis Warren

respect

9,452

66,266

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Irving Babbitt

sympathy

3,731

69,597

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

Patricia Velasquez

travel

6,628

35,563

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

Dick Wolf

home

4,795

9,805

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Dee Dee Myers

change

6,388

3,401

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Marcus V. Pollio

architecture

566

41,274

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

K. Eric Drexler

learning

10,395

11,253

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

Jake Johnson

cool

8,364

48,146

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin

morning

3,560

3,998

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore

art