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6,515	9,286	Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.	Marcus Aurelius	change
7,406	43,325	I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.	Muhammad Ali	love
2,440	57,732	All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.	Giada De Laurentiis	relationship
8,171	42,915	First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.	George Bernard Shaw	love
3,781	36,924	Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.	William Makepeace Thackeray	humor
7,691	73,217	Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.	Isocrates	wisdom
3,284	35,785	I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.	Rachael Ray	home
1,712	21,742	My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.	Franz Kafka	fear
10,959	8,848	It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.	Richard Hammond	car
5,216	14,241	You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.	Francoise Sagan	death
956	12,614	I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.	Rory McIlroy	dad
3,937	54,149	Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.	Don Marquis	poetry
6,100	37,791	I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.	Sean Parker	imagination
1,316	55,797	A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.	Chuck Norris	positive
3,119	74,027	All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.	Germaine Greer	women
10,036	43,172	Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.	Oscar Wilde	love
10,722	66,925	Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.	William Gibson	technology
5,772	18,963	Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.	Frederick Smith	failure
2,439	52,740	An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.	Mahatma Gandhi	peace
3,077	64,541	It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.	Benjamin Britten	strength
10,874	52,997	To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.	Anatole Broyard	peace
1,483	54,596	On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.	Michael Cunningham	poetry
6,200	28,314	I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.	Joan Rivers	god
9,112	35,927	It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.	Oscar Wilde	hope
3,022	26,309	I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.	Dan Stevens	funny
11,694	70,894	Silence is the mother of truth.	Benjamin Disraeli	truth
3,792	46,290	I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.	Tori Amos	mom
681	57,400	Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.	Jeff Goodell	power
2,259	26,079	The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.	Amanda Seyfried	funny
3,274	33,170	For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.	King Abdullah II	health
7,271	55,816	God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.	Edwin Louis Cole	positive
1,892	7,479	Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.	Elbert Hubbard	business
150	59,210	If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.	Paul Harris	religion
6,833	22,583	My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.	Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	fear
947	31,771	I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.	Haile Gebrselassie	great
8,108	60,546	I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.	Halle Berry	romantic
7,864	27,486	We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.	Barbara Boxer	future
6,521	19,041	He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.	B. C. Forbes	faith
8,185	42,716	I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.	Shania Twain	life
603	4,339	Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.	Jerry Saltz	art
10,006	55,377	In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.	Aung San Suu Kyi	politics
9,878	75,716	We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.	Joel Osteen	easter
2,942	29,648	A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.	Pope John XXIII	good
2,503	70,186	My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'	Sean Parker	trust
3,402	38,004	My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.	Clive Barker	imagination
8,722	42,433	In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.	Michael Jordan	life
10,148	35,826	We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	hope
2,965	66,748	I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.	Carrie Ann Inaba	teacher
11,085	28,971	Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.	Bill Cosby	good
10,440	4,627	When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.	Miguel de Cervantes	art
444	40,541	I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.	Ernest Hemingway	learning
8,862	43,867	More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.	Doug Larson	marriage
11,677	5,317	Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.	William Blake	beauty
987	63,600	Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.	William Blackstone	society
7,688	12,791	Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.	Rebecca Hall	dad
8,451	52,531	Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?	Andrew Greeley	patience
2,662	43,601	I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.	James A. Baldwin	love
7,847	54,133	Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.	Thomas Hardy	poetry
6,338	30,610	So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.	Tom Colicchio	government
4,777	30,311	Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.	Rick Perry	government
1,601	67,717	The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.	Paul Allen	technology
9,621	8,920	Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.	Frances McDormand	car
7,508	42,605	Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.	W. C. Fields	life
3,874	28,345	The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.	Blaise Pascal	god
1,827	51,510	Nature has always had more force than education.	Voltaire	nature
5,065	59,973	I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.	Robert Wyatt	respect
4,233	20,933	There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.	Jeffrey Kluger	family
4,218	35,467	Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.	Ellie Goulding	home
1,229	33,714	We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.	LeVar Burton	health
7,609	74,738	My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.	Arthur Conan Doyle	work
9,032	41,595	Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.	Thucydides	legal
3,117	62,215	Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.	Richard Powers	science
6,014	40,124	Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.	Iain Duncan Smith	leadership
5,927	72,689	It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.	Lily Aldridge	wedding
11,682	14,759	I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.	Sophie Ellis Bextor	diet
5,009	51,360	Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.	Mao Zedong	nature
5,425	21,135	Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.	Danica McKellar	famous
4,179	31,193	Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.	Marcel Proust	great
3,426	8,400	A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.	Stone Gossard	car
10,486	66,368	Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.	Andy Rooney	teacher
9,681	63,028	Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.	David Bohm	society
4,113	49,178	Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.	Wim Wenders	movies
1,876	22,417	Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.	Quintilian	fear
6,740	67,098	Some people think technology has the answers.	Kevin Mitnick	technology
11,325	56,492	Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.	Paul Harris	power
3,296	19,808	If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.	Matthew Simpson	faith
5,586	65,366	You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?	W. Clement Stone	success
9,935	9,735	Maybe we all change over time.	Elizabeth Edwards	change
89	36,872	Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.	Sid Caesar	humor
11,458	32,244	Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.	Garth Brooks	happiness
6,637	52,478	If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.	Debra Winger	patience
9,215	67,632	We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.	Mordechai Vanunu	technology
2,295	74,614	When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?	Khalil Gibran	work
1,834	22,278	You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.	Nicole Kidman	fear
5,957	28,954	I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.	Yannick Noah	good
4,004	33,278	The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.	Jeff Goodell	health
9,561	15,049	The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.	George Santayana	dreams
3,709	24,776	I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.	Rosabeth Moss Kanter	freedom
4,863	38,333	Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.	Irene Peter	intelligence
10,001	15,559	So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.	Sally Kirkland	dreams

6,515

9,286

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Marcus Aurelius

change

7,406

43,325

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Muhammad Ali

love

2,440

57,732

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

Giada De Laurentiis

relationship

8,171

42,915

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

love

3,781

36,924

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

humor

7,691

73,217

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Isocrates

wisdom

3,284

35,785

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

Rachael Ray

home

1,712

21,742

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

fear

10,959

8,848

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

Richard Hammond

car

5,216

14,241

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Francoise Sagan

death

956

12,614

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

Rory McIlroy

dad

3,937

54,149

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Don Marquis

poetry

6,100

37,791

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Sean Parker

imagination

1,316

55,797

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Chuck Norris

positive

3,119

74,027

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

Germaine Greer

women

10,036

43,172

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

love

10,722

66,925

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

William Gibson

technology

5,772

18,963

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Frederick Smith

failure

2,439

52,740

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

peace

3,077

64,541

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten

strength

10,874

52,997

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

peace

1,483

54,596

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham

poetry

6,200

28,314

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

god

9,112

35,927

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

hope

3,022

26,309

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Dan Stevens

funny

11,694

70,894

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

truth

3,792

46,290

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori Amos

mom

681

57,400

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Jeff Goodell

power

2,259

26,079

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Amanda Seyfried

funny

3,274

33,170

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

King Abdullah II

health

7,271

55,816

God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.

Edwin Louis Cole

positive

1,892

7,479

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

business

150

59,210

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

Paul Harris

religion

6,833

22,583

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

fear

947

31,771

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Haile Gebrselassie

great

8,108

60,546

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Halle Berry

romantic

7,864

27,486

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

Barbara Boxer

future

6,521

19,041

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

faith

8,185

42,716

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

Shania Twain

life

603

4,339

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

Jerry Saltz

art

10,006

55,377

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Aung San Suu Kyi

politics

9,878

75,716

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Joel Osteen

easter

2,942

29,648

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Pope John XXIII

good

2,503

70,186

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

Sean Parker

trust

3,402

38,004

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

Clive Barker

imagination

8,722

42,433

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Michael Jordan

life

10,148

35,826

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

hope

2,965

66,748

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

Carrie Ann Inaba

teacher

11,085

28,971

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby

good

10,440

4,627

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

art

444

40,541

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

learning

8,862

43,867

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

marriage

11,677

5,317

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake

beauty

987

63,600

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone

society

7,688

12,791

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

Rebecca Hall

dad

8,451

52,531

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Andrew Greeley

patience

2,662

43,601

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin

love

7,847

54,133

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

poetry

6,338

30,610

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Tom Colicchio

government

4,777

30,311

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

Rick Perry

government

1,601

67,717

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Paul Allen

technology

9,621

8,920

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

Frances McDormand

car

7,508

42,605

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

W. C. Fields

life

3,874

28,345

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Blaise Pascal

god

1,827

51,510

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

nature

5,065

59,973

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Robert Wyatt

respect

4,233

20,933

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

Jeffrey Kluger

family

4,218

35,467

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

Ellie Goulding

home

1,229

33,714

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

LeVar Burton

health

7,609

74,738

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

work

9,032

41,595

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

legal

3,117

62,215

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Richard Powers

science

6,014

40,124

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Iain Duncan Smith

leadership

5,927

72,689

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

Lily Aldridge

wedding

11,682

14,759

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

diet

5,009

51,360

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Mao Zedong

nature

5,425

21,135

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Danica McKellar

famous

4,179

31,193

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

great

3,426

8,400

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

Stone Gossard

car

10,486

66,368

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney

teacher

9,681

63,028

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

David Bohm

society

4,113

49,178

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Wim Wenders

movies

1,876

22,417

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Quintilian

fear

6,740

67,098

Some people think technology has the answers.

Kevin Mitnick

technology

11,325

56,492

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Paul Harris

power

3,296

19,808

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Matthew Simpson

faith

5,586

65,366

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

W. Clement Stone

success

9,935

9,735

Maybe we all change over time.

Elizabeth Edwards

change

89

36,872

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

humor

11,458

32,244

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Garth Brooks

happiness

6,637

52,478

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Debra Winger

patience

9,215

67,632

We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.

Mordechai Vanunu

technology

2,295

74,614

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Khalil Gibran

work

1,834

22,278

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

Nicole Kidman

fear

5,957

28,954

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Yannick Noah

good

4,004

33,278

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Jeff Goodell

health

9,561

15,049

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

George Santayana

dreams

3,709

24,776

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

freedom

4,863

38,333

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Irene Peter

intelligence

10,001

15,559

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

Sally Kirkland

dreams