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3,167	39,322	But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.	Muhammad Iqbal	knowledge
4,486	52,618	Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.	Ann Coulter	patriotism
10,990	37,874	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	imagination
1,400	50,033	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
7,223	50,766	I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.	Ellie Goulding	music
8,682	12,725	I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.	Jennifer Lawrence	dad
537	19,255	We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.	Blaise Pascal	faith
9,363	70,447	We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.	Frank Murphy	trust
853	53,324	Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.	Shimon Peres	peace
1,016	64,303	All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.	Gerry Cooney	sports
2,764	29,000	As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.	Steve Jobs	good
10,173	48,717	In the morning, I reach for the sports page.	Lisa Guerrero	morning
5,643	55,977	I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.	Mike Krzyzewski	positive
6,615	70,255	I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.	F. Murray Abraham	trust
10,208	67,744	I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.	Jerry Zucker	technology
9,049	38,852	I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.	Heidi Klum	jealousy
4,544	58,790	They have hijacked my religion.	Cat Stevens	religion
10,596	9,511	Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.	Miguel Angel Ruiz	change
4,672	66,020	I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'	Larry Hagman	success
1,040	64,990	The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.	Guy Finley	strength
7,920	60,014	The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.	Michelle Bachelet	respect
7,650	64,306	We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.	Jerry Lawler	sports
2,258	64,775	I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.	Robert Browning	strength
3,263	30,184	In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.	Noam Chomsky	government
5,867	53,930	A poem is never finished, only abandoned.	Paul Valery	poetry
1,680	71,439	If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.	Karl Kraus	truth
9,831	67,027	Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.	Stephen Covey	technology
8,388	37,225	Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.	Lionel Trilling	humor
1,522	74,267	People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.	Janice Dickinson	women
9,191	29,226	Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.	Robert Louis Stevenson	good
967	58,601	Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.	Madonna Ciccone	religion
3,510	467	There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	age
9,472	27,366	Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.	Christopher Nolan	future
9,436	3,682	The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.	Pablo Picasso	art
5,728	5,889	I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.	Melanie Fiona	beauty
6,088	55,431	One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.	Frank Lautenberg	politics
2,383	51,113	What's missing from pop music is danger.	Prince	music
7,611	67,403	Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.	Daryl Hannah	technology
2,081	8,199	I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.	Kristen Wiig	business
5,138	62,733	The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.	Lily Tomlin	society
10,976	57,982	I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.	Michel Gondry	relationship
8,319	4,293	Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.	Jerry Saltz	art
188	11,702	Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.	Jesse Jackson	courage
11,769	16,696	I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.	Michele Bachmann	education
9,848	24,196	I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.	Scott Stapp	forgiveness
166	1,877	I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.	John Barton	alone
7,221	39,704	The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.	Dennis Potter	knowledge
1,711	22,656	I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.	Matt Damon	fear
8,504	33,947	You have to look at history as an evolution of society.	Jean Chretien	history
1,089	68,250	When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.	Harriet Beecher Stowe	time
7,179	2,822	What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.	Chubby Checker	amazing
8,088	67,095	The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.	James Buchan	technology
3,689	26,568	They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.	Laura Bush	funny
9,999	51,959	When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.	Tim Burton	nature
6,391	25,537	Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.	Robert Blair	friendship
11,782	26,325	Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.	Tippi Hedren	funny
4,425	72,548	Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.	Peter Ustinov	wedding
7,935	67,879	I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.	Jamie Bell	teen
11,466	62,088	Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.	Roland Joffe	science
9,340	30,660	Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?	Mitch McConnell	government
2,706	18,342	I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.	Paulo Coelho	failure
8,540	19,790	Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.	Ricky Martin	faith
3,352	68,755	Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.	Thomas Carlyle	time
9,899	64,724	I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.	Huey Newton	strength
8,168	58,975	The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.	Jeffrey Kluger	religion
8,710	15,333	You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.	Mark Victor Hansen	dreams
6,670	38,344	Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.	Thomas A. Edison	intelligence
10,539	23,552	Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.	Joseph Butler	food
750	44,102	I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.	Hillary Clinton	marriage
6,697	40,943	Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.	Jamie Foxx	learning
3,359	65,232	Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.	Erma Bombeck	success
8,534	45,251	Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.	Christopher Dawson	men
3,668	73,024	In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!	Homer	wisdom
10,931	39,038	When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.	Herbert Spencer	knowledge
9,743	40,091	Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.	David Cameron	leadership
1,551	50,084	I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.	Justin Cronin	movies
749	37	Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.	Don Marquis	age
4,764	23,066	There is no sincerer love than the love of food.	George Bernard Shaw	food
1,125	19,189	People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.	Joel Osteen	faith
3,147	20,021	He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.	Chanakya	family
8,798	51,532	The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.	Soren Kierkegaard	nature
6,834	41,173	People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.	Henry Reed	learning
8,526	20,608	AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.	Ron Fournier	family
1,390	45,643	Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.	Niccolo Machiavelli	men
4,998	23,668	My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.	Michael Symon	food
3,542	57,572	When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.	Jeff Bridges	relationship
10,378	57,325	It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.	Thomas Frank	power
4,891	65,205	All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.	Mark Twain	success
6,888	54,235	While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.	Andrew Motion	poetry
5,416	45,091	The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.	Jose Serrano	medical
11,200	47,491	Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.	William F. Buckley, Jr.	money
11,194	31,818	We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.	Matthew Modine	great
8,250	25,515	A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.	Thomas More	friendship
1,026	28,931	Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.	Oscar Wilde	good
2,522	10,067	The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.	Mark Zuckerberg	communication
959	43,687	The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.	Michael Jackson	love
7,307	70,582	My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.	Whitney Houston	truth
10,196	6,503	The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.	Justin Timberlake	best
493	10,936	I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.	Nate Ruess	cool
7,480	65,247	In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.	Henry Ward Beecher	success

3,167

39,322

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Muhammad Iqbal

knowledge

4,486

52,618

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

Ann Coulter

patriotism

10,990

37,874

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

imagination

1,400

50,033

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

7,223

50,766

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Ellie Goulding

music

8,682

12,725

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

dad

537

19,255

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Blaise Pascal

faith

9,363

70,447

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

Frank Murphy

trust

853

53,324

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Shimon Peres

peace

1,016

64,303

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

Gerry Cooney

sports

2,764

29,000

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Steve Jobs

good

10,173

48,717

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

Lisa Guerrero

morning

5,643

55,977

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Mike Krzyzewski

positive

6,615

70,255

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

F. Murray Abraham

trust

10,208

67,744

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Jerry Zucker

technology

9,049

38,852

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Heidi Klum

jealousy

4,544

58,790

They have hijacked my religion.

Cat Stevens

religion

10,596

9,511

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

change

4,672

66,020

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

Larry Hagman

success

1,040

64,990

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

Guy Finley

strength

7,920

60,014

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Michelle Bachelet

respect

7,650

64,306

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Jerry Lawler

sports

2,258

64,775

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Robert Browning

strength

3,263

30,184

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

Noam Chomsky

government

5,867

53,930

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

poetry

1,680

71,439

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Karl Kraus

truth

9,831

67,027

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Stephen Covey

technology

8,388

37,225

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

humor

1,522

74,267

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Janice Dickinson

women

9,191

29,226

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

good

967

58,601

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Madonna Ciccone

religion

3,510

467

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

age

9,472

27,366

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

Christopher Nolan

future

9,436

3,682

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

art

5,728

5,889

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

Melanie Fiona

beauty

6,088

55,431

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Frank Lautenberg

politics

2,383

51,113

What's missing from pop music is danger.

Prince

music

7,611

67,403

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Daryl Hannah

technology

2,081

8,199

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

Kristen Wiig

business

5,138

62,733

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

society

10,976

57,982

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

Michel Gondry

relationship

8,319

4,293

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Jerry Saltz

art

188

11,702

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

courage

11,769

16,696

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Michele Bachmann

education

9,848

24,196

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

Scott Stapp

forgiveness

166

1,877

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

John Barton

alone

7,221

39,704

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

knowledge

1,711

22,656

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Matt Damon

fear

8,504

33,947

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Jean Chretien

history

1,089

68,250

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

time

7,179

2,822

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

Chubby Checker

amazing

8,088

67,095

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

James Buchan

technology

3,689

26,568

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

Laura Bush

funny

9,999

51,959

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Tim Burton

nature

6,391

25,537

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Robert Blair

friendship

11,782

26,325

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Tippi Hedren

funny

4,425

72,548

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Peter Ustinov

wedding

7,935

67,879

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

Jamie Bell

teen

11,466

62,088

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

science

9,340

30,660

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

Mitch McConnell

government

2,706

18,342

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Paulo Coelho

failure

8,540

19,790

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Ricky Martin

faith

3,352

68,755

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Thomas Carlyle

time

9,899

64,724

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Huey Newton

strength

8,168

58,975

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Jeffrey Kluger

religion

8,710

15,333

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

dreams

6,670

38,344

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas A. Edison

intelligence

10,539

23,552

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Joseph Butler

food

750

44,102

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Hillary Clinton

marriage

6,697

40,943

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Jamie Foxx

learning

3,359

65,232

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck

success

8,534

45,251

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Christopher Dawson

men

3,668

73,024

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Homer

wisdom

10,931

39,038

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer

knowledge

9,743

40,091

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

leadership

1,551

50,084

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

Justin Cronin

movies

749

37

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

age

4,764

23,066

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

food

1,125

19,189

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Joel Osteen

faith

3,147

20,021

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

family

8,798

51,532

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

nature

6,834

41,173

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed

learning

8,526

20,608

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

Ron Fournier

family

1,390

45,643

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

men

4,998

23,668

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

Michael Symon

food

3,542

57,572

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Jeff Bridges

relationship

10,378

57,325

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Thomas Frank

power

4,891

65,205

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

success

6,888

54,235

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

poetry

5,416

45,091

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

Jose Serrano

medical

11,200

47,491

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

money

11,194

31,818

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine

great

8,250

25,515

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

Thomas More

friendship

1,026

28,931

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

good

2,522

10,067

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Mark Zuckerberg

communication

959

43,687

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Michael Jackson

love

7,307

70,582

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Whitney Houston

truth

10,196

6,503

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Justin Timberlake

best

493

10,936

I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

Nate Ruess

cool

7,480

65,247

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

success