c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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5,608	32,983	With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.	Nora Ephron	health
6,897	25,611	The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.	Bradley Chicho	friendship
11,595	52,460	You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.	Franklin P. Jones	patience
8,342	7,737	But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.	Marco Rubio	business
3,052	42,137	The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.	Audrey Hepburn	life
11,788	48,958	I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.	Jake Lloyd	morning
7,501	14,892	The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.	Mark Hyman	diet
1,285	62,525	I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.	Serena Williams	smile
10,405	27,841	I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.	e. e. cummings	god
2,356	62,734	The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.	Erich Fromm	society
926	69,567	I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.	Diane von Furstenberg	travel
9,967	13,316	Call no man happy till he is dead.	Aeschylus	death
10,730	37,606	I have a very vivid imagination.	Janice Dickinson	imagination
9,524	26,241	I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.	Jarvis Cocker	funny
8,739	50,413	I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.	Stephen Hawking	music
3,056	433	Now is the age of anxiety.	W. H. Auden	age
10,386	44,559	I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.	Lara Flynn Boyle	marriage
9,939	15,363	God, that dumping ground of our dreams.	Jean Rostand	dreams
7,944	73,526	The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.	Adrienne Rich	women
11,425	14,824	I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.	Gwen Stefani	diet
6,542	35,681	I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.	Jennifer Garner	home
8,738	71,760	Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.	Pope John Paul II	war
5,796	75,742	God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.	Robert South	easter
8,657	4,189	I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.	Alanis Morissette	art
11,486	4,048	Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.	George Jean Nathan	art
9,263	62,647	I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.	Carson Kressley	smile
8,830	40,685	Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.	Euripides	learning
3,339	61,277	I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.	Dierks Bentley	sad
215	48,424	Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.	Elizabeth Wurtzel	morning
5,226	10,140	The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!	Noam Chomsky	communication
4,952	66,081	I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.	Paula Radcliffe	success
11,612	70,075	I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.	Leona Lewis	trust
11,802	69,820	The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.	James Madison	trust
9,284	51,405	God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.	Marcus Garvey	nature
7,185	75,906	Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.	John Clayton	thanksgiving
8,727	33,478	Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.	Jim Ryun	health
10,057	32,995	The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.	Jimmy Carter	health
2,207	31,065	If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.	Robert Frost	great
10,967	55,992	The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!	Dante Hall	positive
7,118	4,143	Art is the objectification of feeling.	Herman Melville	art
3,289	65,684	Why be a man when you can be a success?	Bertolt Brecht	success
3,703	16,417	My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.	Renee Fleming	education
11,566	19,320	Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.	George Santayana	faith
5,274	22,668	I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.	St. Vincent	fear
9,084	61,325	I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.	Tiffeny Milbrett	sad
10,665	35,208	A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.	Mel Gibson	home
7,617	30,946	The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.	Thomas Jefferson	great
6,694	50,403	Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.	Ludwig van Beethoven	music
11,324	13,698	My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.	Brooke Shields	death
7,342	24,662	It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.	Herodotus	freedom
3,227	2,687	I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.	Nile Rodgers	amazing
5,100	31,448	Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.	Orison Swett Marden	great
3,440	38,215	I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.	Candice Swanepoel	inspirational
2,050	27,039	We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.	Iris Murdoch	future
6,096	42,930	I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.	J. D. Salinger	love
1,474	3,958	The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.	William Hazlitt	art
1,242	2,650	Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.	Lara St. John	amazing
10,477	5,467	Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.	Rashida Jones	beauty
10,633	28,867	The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.	P. J. O'Rourke	good
548	23,333	You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.	Kate Moss	food
11,545	48,166	When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'	Steven Wright	morning
3,213	64,725	People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.	Dennis Prager	strength
6,765	39,142	Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.	William James	knowledge
4,081	5,843	When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.	Alexis Arguello	beauty
3,069	483	I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.	Willie Nelson	age
2,760	17,196	I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.	Sandra Lee	equality
10,522	56,832	I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.	Plutarch	power
6,519	35,735	I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.	Amitabh Bachchan	home
3,198	4,554	The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.	Saul Williams	art
1,259	39,147	Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.	Peter Drucker	knowledge
2,264	56,379	No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.	Reeve Carney	positive
7,667	30,809	Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.	Sloane Crosley	graduation
10,711	14,923	My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.	Chelsea Clinton	diet
93	69,521	An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.	Paul D. Boyer	travel
1,824	71,285	The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.	Newt Gingrich	truth
2,962	9,998	Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.	Mario Batali	change
4,156	59,434	As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.	Stockwell Day	respect
5,660	7,708	I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.	Brian Clough	business
8,114	71,613	We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	war
1,212	29,028	I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.	Marilyn Monroe	good
2,703	51,821	In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.	Taylor Swift	nature
9,956	28,372	God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.	Meister Eckhart	god
6,599	32,429	It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.	Herman Hesse	happiness
3,943	34,371	Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.	Ilka Chase	history
11,472	26,431	I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.	Ian MacKaye	funny
8,634	21,194	Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.	Seth Lloyd	famous
9,578	27,710	I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.	Ken Thompson	gardening
4,061	59,406	If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.	Abraham Lincoln	respect
9,012	62,954	Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.	Morihei Ueshiba	society
6,127	37,194	I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.	Rebecca Romijn	humor
3,316	44,255	I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.	Elizabeth Edwards	marriage
4,859	62,708	Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!	William Cartwright	smile
1,749	38,913	I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.	Keira Knightley	jealousy
10,202	59,404	Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.	Albert Einstein	respect
6,255	11,460	I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.	Harold Perrineau	cool
8,361	8,953	There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?	Timothy Griffin	car
5,450	67,028	Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.	Christopher Hitchens	technology
6,081	52,362	Abused patience turns to fury.	Thomas Fuller	patience
5,785	60,203	I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.	Bjorn Ulvaeus	respect
5,272	27,292	We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.	Barbara Jordan	future

5,608

32,983

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Nora Ephron

health

6,897

25,611

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Bradley Chicho

friendship

11,595

52,460

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

patience

8,342

7,737

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Marco Rubio

business

3,052

42,137

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn

life

11,788

48,958

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

Jake Lloyd

morning

7,501

14,892

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

Mark Hyman

diet

1,285

62,525

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Serena Williams

smile

10,405

27,841

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings

god

2,356

62,734

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Erich Fromm

society

926

69,567

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

Diane von Furstenberg

travel

9,967

13,316

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

death

10,730

37,606

I have a very vivid imagination.

Janice Dickinson

imagination

9,524

26,241

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

Jarvis Cocker

funny

8,739

50,413

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

Stephen Hawking

music

3,056

433

Now is the age of anxiety.

W. H. Auden

age

10,386

44,559

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Lara Flynn Boyle

marriage

9,939

15,363

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Jean Rostand

dreams

7,944

73,526

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Adrienne Rich

women

11,425

14,824

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

Gwen Stefani

diet

6,542

35,681

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

Jennifer Garner

home

8,738

71,760

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

war

5,796

75,742

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Robert South

easter

8,657

4,189

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Alanis Morissette

art

11,486

4,048

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

George Jean Nathan

art

9,263

62,647

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

Carson Kressley

smile

8,830

40,685

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

learning

3,339

61,277

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Dierks Bentley

sad

215

48,424

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

morning

5,226

10,140

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Noam Chomsky

communication

4,952

66,081

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Paula Radcliffe

success

11,612

70,075

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Leona Lewis

trust

11,802

69,820

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison

trust

9,284

51,405

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Marcus Garvey

nature

7,185

75,906

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

John Clayton

thanksgiving

8,727

33,478

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

Jim Ryun

health

10,057

32,995

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Jimmy Carter

health

2,207

31,065

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

Robert Frost

great

10,967

55,992

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Dante Hall

positive

7,118

4,143

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Herman Melville

art

3,289

65,684

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

success

3,703

16,417

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

Renee Fleming

education

11,566

19,320

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

faith

5,274

22,668

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

St. Vincent

fear

9,084

61,325

I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Tiffeny Milbrett

sad

10,665

35,208

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Mel Gibson

home

7,617

30,946

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

great

6,694

50,403

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

music

11,324

13,698

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Brooke Shields

death

7,342

24,662

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Herodotus

freedom

3,227

2,687

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

Nile Rodgers

amazing

5,100

31,448

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Orison Swett Marden

great

3,440

38,215

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

Candice Swanepoel

inspirational

2,050

27,039

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Iris Murdoch

future

6,096

42,930

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

J. D. Salinger

love

1,474

3,958

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

art

1,242

2,650

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

Lara St. John

amazing

10,477

5,467

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Rashida Jones

beauty

10,633

28,867

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

P. J. O'Rourke

good

548

23,333

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

Kate Moss

food

11,545

48,166

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Steven Wright

morning

3,213

64,725

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

strength

6,765

39,142

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

knowledge

4,081

5,843

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Alexis Arguello

beauty

3,069

483

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Willie Nelson

age

2,760

17,196

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Sandra Lee

equality

10,522

56,832

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Plutarch

power

6,519

35,735

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Amitabh Bachchan

home

3,198

4,554

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

art

1,259

39,147

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Peter Drucker

knowledge

2,264

56,379

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Reeve Carney

positive

7,667

30,809

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

graduation

10,711

14,923

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

Chelsea Clinton

diet

93

69,521

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Paul D. Boyer

travel

1,824

71,285

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Newt Gingrich

truth

2,962

9,998

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Mario Batali

change

4,156

59,434

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day

respect

5,660

7,708

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Brian Clough

business

8,114

71,613

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

war

1,212

29,028

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Marilyn Monroe

good

2,703

51,821

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Taylor Swift

nature

9,956

28,372

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Meister Eckhart

god

6,599

32,429

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Herman Hesse

happiness

3,943

34,371

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Ilka Chase

history

11,472

26,431

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

Ian MacKaye

funny

8,634

21,194

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Seth Lloyd

famous

9,578

27,710

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Ken Thompson

gardening

4,061

59,406

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

respect

9,012

62,954

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Morihei Ueshiba

society

6,127

37,194

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

Rebecca Romijn

humor

3,316

44,255

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Elizabeth Edwards

marriage

4,859

62,708

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

William Cartwright

smile

1,749

38,913

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

Keira Knightley

jealousy

10,202

59,404

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

respect

6,255

11,460

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.

Harold Perrineau

cool

8,361

8,953

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

Timothy Griffin

car

5,450

67,028

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens

technology

6,081

52,362

Abused patience turns to fury.

Thomas Fuller

patience

5,785

60,203

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

respect

5,272

27,292

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Barbara Jordan

future