c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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1,983	74,357	Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.	Mary Wollstonecraft	women
11,063	69,419	I can't travel without Sudoku.	Robert Ballard	travel
10,584	62,566	I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!	Samuel Smiles	smile
5,976	7,889	There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.	David Letterman	business
3,982	43,472	We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.	Sigmund Freud	love
6,885	67,808	Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.	Claire Danes	teen
969	29,917	The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	government
4,441	31,790	I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.	Arnold Schwarzenegger	great
1,370	46,703	My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.	Alan Jackson	mom
8,928	46,297	I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.	Christina Aguilera	mom
3,264	930	You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.	Norman Douglas	age
7,018	70,980	It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.	John Ruskin	truth
4,366	72,105	War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.	Smedley Butler	war
9,541	39,587	It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.	Paul Nurse	knowledge
1,328	50,800	Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.	David Byrne	music
6,480	58,069	As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.	Kenzaburo Oe	relationship
11,645	22,505	By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.	Ayelet Waldman	fear
3,930	35,163	I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.	Michael Phelps	home
4,234	9,431	You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.	John Cleese	change
8,287	48,352	Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?	Jack LaLanne	morning
3,172	7,248	I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.	Michael Weatherly	birthday
10,616	15,655	This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.	Corey Hart	dreams
8,818	63,584	Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'	Graham Norton	society
4,819	53,588	I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.	Ehud Olmert	peace
4,643	36,938	It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.	David Herbert Lawrence	humor
9,142	5,955	I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.	Tila Tequila	beauty
1,090	24,887	My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.	Shimon Peres	freedom
8,688	59,528	We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.	Ambrose Bierce	respect
7,745	74,537	There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.	Colin Powell	work
7,253	41,987	The greatest pleasure of life is love.	Euripides	life
1,215	64,100	It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.	Roger Goodell	sports
8,078	26,859	We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.	Paul Kagame	future
2,298	37,267	I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.	Michael Buble	humor
8,633	18,189	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	experience
11,549	70,941	Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.	Ellen DeGeneres	truth
1,361	9,194	It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.	Alan Cohen	change
9,073	24,090	Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.	Marlene Dietrich	forgiveness
5,960	33,360	The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.	Placido Domingo	health
9,287	13,150	I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.	Patricia Velasquez	dating
9,932	24,312	The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.	John F. Kennedy	freedom
10,134	41,755	We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.	Li Peng	legal
1,889	70,841	Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.	Karl Von Clausewitz	truth
11,553	72,495	In time of peace prepare for war.	Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus	war
6,347	10,269	Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.	Malcolm Arnold	communication
2,543	18,281	And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.	John Abizaid	experience
11,056	73,998	Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.	Charlotte Whitton	women
1,152	65,685	I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.	David Cameron	success
2,705	20,997	My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.	Emma Bunton	family
7,828	294	I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.	John Henrik Clarke	age
10,109	70,148	The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.	John McCarthy	trust
5,263	71,023	I've been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp I'm quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.	T. E. Lawrence	truth
852	51,335	Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.	Gerard De Nerval	nature
11,789	476	From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.	John Henry Newman	age
1,773	35,836	Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.	Epicurus	hope
10,728	520	This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.	Arthur C. Clarke	age
10,847	6,147	To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.	William Makepeace Thackeray	best
7,115	24,600	God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.	John Calvin	freedom
9,506	47,791	Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.	Mary Quant	money
7,151	66,578	A good teacher is a determined person.	Gilbert Highet	teacher
7,769	32,178	The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.	Jacques Yves Cousteau	happiness
10,577	56,631	Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.	Margaret Thatcher	power
4,633	16,126	You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.	Malcolm X	education
7,760	52,530	Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.	Randy Johnson	patience
7,942	55,223	I don't follow politics much.	Vivienne Westwood	politics
5,510	51,631	Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.	Arthur Schopenhauer	nature
10,937	29,291	Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.	H. L. Mencken	good
8,009	64,857	The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.	Ariel Sharon	strength
6,390	31,798	The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.	Christopher Hitchens	great
11,438	5,359	Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.	Martha Beck	beauty
7,261	59,895	I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.	Charles Schumer	respect
2,243	38,327	I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.	James Whistler	intelligence
5,819	21,348	It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.	Matt LeBlanc	famous
11,429	9,554	I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.	Taylor Swift	change
11,252	42,064	Where there is love there is life.	Mahatma Gandhi	life
6,008	22,035	Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.	Samuel Butler	fear
3,926	60,872	Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.	Anne Bronte	sad
6,811	7,651	There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.	Joseph Addison	business
2,970	22,979	At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?	Ron Fournier	fitness
5,648	61,162	Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.	Eric Holder	sad
4,642	37,040	I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.	Sloane Crosley	humor
579	54,943	I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.	Jeane Kirkpatrick	politics
4,326	59,910	I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.	John Major	respect
4	65,636	Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.	John D. Rockefeller	success
10,891	33,556	In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.	Michael Nutter	health
3,596	38,236	We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.	Albert Einstein	intelligence
6,750	73,785	All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.	Donald Trump	women
5,712	6,364	We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.	Barack Obama	best
2,932	47,599	Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.	A. A. Milne	money
2,201	44,974	In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.	Jon Huntsman, Jr.	medical
5,757	24,111	I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.	Chaim Herzog	forgiveness
3,143	33,294	I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.	Steve Yzerman	health
8,055	46,547	When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!	Brooke Burke	mom
1,151	60,455	My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.	Corey Hart	romantic
1,793	34,912	There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.	Marilyn Monroe	home
305	13,798	Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.	John Milton	death
11,499	61,706	Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.	Swami Sivananda	science
4,175	3,547	I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.	Arne Jacobsen	architecture
380	73,532	People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.	Joan Jett	women
7,173	54,173	My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.	James Broughton	poetry
3,144	53,959	Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.	Rita Dove	poetry

1,983

74,357

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Mary Wollstonecraft

women

11,063

69,419

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Robert Ballard

travel

10,584

62,566

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Samuel Smiles

smile

5,976

7,889

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

business

3,982

43,472

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

love

6,885

67,808

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Claire Danes

teen

969

29,917

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

government

4,441

31,790

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

great

1,370

46,703

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

Alan Jackson

mom

8,928

46,297

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

Christina Aguilera

mom

3,264

930

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Norman Douglas

age

7,018

70,980

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

truth

4,366

72,105

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

war

9,541

39,587

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Paul Nurse

knowledge

1,328

50,800

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

David Byrne

music

6,480

58,069

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Kenzaburo Oe

relationship

11,645

22,505

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Ayelet Waldman

fear

3,930

35,163

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Michael Phelps

home

4,234

9,431

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

John Cleese

change

8,287

48,352

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

Jack LaLanne

morning

3,172

7,248

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Michael Weatherly

birthday

10,616

15,655

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Corey Hart

dreams

8,818

63,584

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

Graham Norton

society

4,819

53,588

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

Ehud Olmert

peace

4,643

36,938

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

David Herbert Lawrence

humor

9,142

5,955

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

Tila Tequila

beauty

1,090

24,887

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

Shimon Peres

freedom

8,688

59,528

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

respect

7,745

74,537

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

work

7,253

41,987

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

life

1,215

64,100

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Roger Goodell

sports

8,078

26,859

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Paul Kagame

future

2,298

37,267

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Michael Buble

humor

8,633

18,189

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

experience

11,549

70,941

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Ellen DeGeneres

truth

1,361

9,194

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

change

9,073

24,090

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

forgiveness

5,960

33,360

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Placido Domingo

health

9,287

13,150

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

Patricia Velasquez

dating

9,932

24,312

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

freedom

10,134

41,755

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

Li Peng

legal

1,889

70,841

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Karl Von Clausewitz

truth

11,553

72,495

In time of peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

war

6,347

10,269

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Malcolm Arnold

communication

2,543

18,281

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

John Abizaid

experience

11,056

73,998

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

women

1,152

65,685

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

David Cameron

success

2,705

20,997

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

Emma Bunton

family

7,828

294

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

age

10,109

70,148

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John McCarthy

trust

5,263

71,023

I've been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp I'm quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

T. E. Lawrence

truth

852

51,335

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Gerard De Nerval

nature

11,789

476

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

age

1,773

35,836

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

hope

10,728

520

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Arthur C. Clarke

age

10,847

6,147

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

best

7,115

24,600

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

John Calvin

freedom

9,506

47,791

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Mary Quant

money

7,151

66,578

A good teacher is a determined person.

Gilbert Highet

teacher

7,769

32,178

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

happiness

10,577

56,631

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

power

4,633

16,126

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Malcolm X

education

7,760

52,530

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Randy Johnson

patience

7,942

55,223

I don't follow politics much.

Vivienne Westwood

politics

5,510

51,631

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

nature

10,937

29,291

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

good

8,009

64,857

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Ariel Sharon

strength

6,390

31,798

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens

great

11,438

5,359

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Martha Beck

beauty

7,261

59,895

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Charles Schumer

respect

2,243

38,327

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

James Whistler

intelligence

5,819

21,348

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

Matt LeBlanc

famous

11,429

9,554

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Taylor Swift

change

11,252

42,064

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

life

6,008

22,035

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

fear

3,926

60,872

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Anne Bronte

sad

6,811

7,651

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Joseph Addison

business

2,970

22,979

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

fitness

5,648

61,162

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

Eric Holder

sad

4,642

37,040

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Sloane Crosley

humor

579

54,943

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

politics

4,326

59,910

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

John Major

respect

4

65,636

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

success

10,891

33,556

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Michael Nutter

health

3,596

38,236

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

intelligence

6,750

73,785

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

Donald Trump

women

5,712

6,364

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Barack Obama

best

2,932

47,599

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne

money

2,201

44,974

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

medical

5,757

24,111

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

Chaim Herzog

forgiveness

3,143

33,294

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

Steve Yzerman

health

8,055

46,547

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Brooke Burke

mom

1,151

60,455

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

Corey Hart

romantic

1,793

34,912

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Marilyn Monroe

home

305

13,798

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

John Milton

death

11,499

61,706

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Swami Sivananda

science

4,175

3,547

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen

architecture

380

73,532

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Joan Jett

women

7,173

54,173

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

James Broughton

poetry

3,144

53,959

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

poetry