c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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1,028	27,327	I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.	Paul Wellstone	future
9,357	24,538	Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	freedom
1,023	58,481	There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.	Saint Ambrose	religion
1,859	75,086	There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.	Andre Gide	work
5,312	25,757	I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.	Will Rogers	funny
501	31,353	When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.	Brian Eno	great
8,655	55,056	Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.	James Russell Lowell	politics
8,713	46,253	For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.	LeBron James	mom
8,982	16,736	Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.	Robert M. Hutchins	education
8,524	25,043	With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.	Richard Stallman	freedom
7,841	34,393	In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.	Stefan Zweig	history
5,669	21,478	I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.	Seth Green	famous
10,590	1,923	On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.	Judith Krantz	alone
6,063	74,530	I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.	Thomas A. Edison	work
8,835	14,131	Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.	Friedrich Durrenmatt	death
3,640	43,356	I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.	Arthur Rubinstein	love
398	25,934	I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.	Audrey Hepburn	funny
11,343	1,377	India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.	Sri Aurobindo	alone
3,995	13,476	We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.	Bill Hicks	death
10,697	57,587	There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.	Shia LaBeouf	relationship
11,055	61,269	I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.	Rosanna Arquette	sad
10,870	75,828	If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.	P. J. O'Rourke	newyears
4,027	39,813	A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.	Trofim Lysenko	knowledge
2,757	17,465	Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.	Salvador Dali	experience
10,679	70,179	I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	trust
8,285	21,003	But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.	Andrea Martin	family
4,240	63,989	I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.	Leighton Meester	sports
11,620	19,056	Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.	Thomas Paine	faith
4,397	58,573	There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.	Niccolo Machiavelli	religion
6,503	2,974	Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.	Richard M. Nixon	anger
3,593	9,855	I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.	Al Gore	change
7,356	45,117	I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.	Lennart Nilsson	medical
3,156	30,194	President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.	Paul Ryan	government
11,599	40,256	The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.	Natan Sharansky	leadership
370	187	I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.	Elizabeth Taylor	age
8,728	29,811	A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.	Thomas Jefferson	government
9,359	17,495	The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.	Chinua Achebe	experience
5,472	61,268	I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.	Jim Broadbent	sad
6,769	70,473	There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.	Banksy	trust
11,616	48,999	I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.	Angus Wilson	morning
147	60,945	Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.	Max Muller	sad
7,217	63,957	There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.	Harvey Weinstein	sports
11,273	23,763	At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.	Michael Pollan	food
6,862	6,415	In art the best is good enough.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	best
1,679	30,857	Never was anything great achieved without danger.	Niccolo Machiavelli	great
8,649	19,876	Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.	Phillip E. Johnson	faith
5,738	73,589	Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.	Oscar Wilde	women
9,624	13,969	Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.	Edna Ferber	death
8,090	1,044	The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.	Doug Coupland	alone
6,265	67,271	School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.	Reed Hastings	technology
4,389	57,851	Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.	Kenny Loggins	relationship
6,175	958	The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.	Lascelles Abercrombie	age
2,865	9,868	When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.	Jonathan Safran Foer	change
7,317	7,349	Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.	Andy Warhol	business
10,506	59,914	I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.	Wynton Marsalis	respect
2,653	36,796	I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.	Tadao Ando	hope
5,296	51,917	I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.	Hugh Jackman	nature
3,830	18,121	I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.	Barbara Kingsolver	experience
6,260	54,504	Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.	Mark Strand	poetry
599	66,704	The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.	Tucker Carlson	teacher
1,577	40,913	Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.	Edward Young	learning
456	66,714	My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.	C. L. R. James	teacher
10,724	44,382	My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.	Kyle Chandler	marriage
2,223	44,668	I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.	Lisa Guerrero	marriage
5,039	72,467	Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.	King Hussein I	war
8,368	50,286	Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.	Pablo Casals	music
2,914	50,097	You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.	Hank Azaria	movies
127	61,300	I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.	Jeff Buckley	sad
10,873	31,252	Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.	Charles Stanley	great
7,087	9,148	What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.	Havelock Ellis	change
6,946	4,562	I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.	David Rockefeller	art
3,234	27,136	We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.	Daniel Carter Beard	future
7,810	56,588	The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.	Chanakya	power
7,363	13,921	When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.	Ralph Fiennes	death
11,507	32,820	Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.	Monica Edwards	happiness
3,846	5,788	As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.	Idina Menzel	beauty
6,739	44,815	Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.	Judith Wright	marriage
622	64,194	Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.	Curtis Joseph	sports
6,097	18,689	Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.	Ayelet Waldman	failure
6,695	11,677	Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.	Thomas S. Monson	courage
11,542	1,598	Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.	Joyce Carol Oates	alone
9,982	44,368	People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.	Mary Wesley	marriage
6,077	18,898	Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.	Billy Dee Williams	failure
101	51,945	Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.	Jean Ingelow	nature
516	72,256	Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.	James A. Garfield	war
28	89	We pay when old for the excesses of youth.	J. B. Priestley	age
3,050	45,292	Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.	Plato	men
7,003	14,169	In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.	Daniel Boone	death
3,979	75,216	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	work
8,930	27,482	Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.	Margaret Fuller	future
6,690	7,287	Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.	Dale Carnegie	business
2,320	47,567	It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.	Dolly Parton	money
9,736	45,503	Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.	Jim Rohn	men
8,791	16,249	The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.	John Glenn	education
1,673	7,240	My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.	Blair Underwood	birthday
410	39,351	We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.	Li Ka Shing	knowledge
7,076	48,397	There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.	Benjamin Netanyahu	morning
3,999	70,782	The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?	E. O. Wilson	truth
2,811	11,604	We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.	Barbara de Angelis	courage
10,987	6,462	Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.	Pope John XXIII	best

1,028

27,327

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

Paul Wellstone

future

9,357

24,538

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

freedom

1,023

58,481

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Saint Ambrose

religion

1,859

75,086

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Andre Gide

work

5,312

25,757

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Will Rogers

funny

501

31,353

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Brian Eno

great

8,655

55,056

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

politics

8,713

46,253

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

LeBron James

mom

8,982

16,736

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

education

8,524

25,043

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

Richard Stallman

freedom

7,841

34,393

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Stefan Zweig

history

5,669

21,478

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Seth Green

famous

10,590

1,923

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

Judith Krantz

alone

6,063

74,530

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

work

8,835

14,131

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

death

3,640

43,356

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

love

398

25,934

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Audrey Hepburn

funny

11,343

1,377

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

Sri Aurobindo

alone

3,995

13,476

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Bill Hicks

death

10,697

57,587

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

Shia LaBeouf

relationship

11,055

61,269

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette

sad

10,870

75,828

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

P. J. O'Rourke

newyears

4,027

39,813

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Trofim Lysenko

knowledge

2,757

17,465

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

experience

10,679

70,179

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

trust

8,285

21,003

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Andrea Martin

family

4,240

63,989

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Leighton Meester

sports

11,620

19,056

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

faith

4,397

58,573

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

religion

6,503

2,974

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon

anger

3,593

9,855

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

change

7,356

45,117

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Lennart Nilsson

medical

3,156

30,194

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

Paul Ryan

government

11,599

40,256

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

Natan Sharansky

leadership

370

187

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Elizabeth Taylor

age

8,728

29,811

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

government

9,359

17,495

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

experience

5,472

61,268

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Jim Broadbent

sad

6,769

70,473

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Banksy

trust

11,616

48,999

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Angus Wilson

morning

147

60,945

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Max Muller

sad

7,217

63,957

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

Harvey Weinstein

sports

11,273

23,763

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Michael Pollan

food

6,862

6,415

In art the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

best

1,679

30,857

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

great

8,649

19,876

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Phillip E. Johnson

faith

5,738

73,589

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

Oscar Wilde

women

9,624

13,969

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber

death

8,090

1,044

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Doug Coupland

alone

6,265

67,271

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

Reed Hastings

technology

4,389

57,851

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

Kenny Loggins

relationship

6,175

958

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

age

2,865

9,868

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Jonathan Safran Foer

change

7,317

7,349

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Andy Warhol

business

10,506

59,914

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Wynton Marsalis

respect

2,653

36,796

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

Tadao Ando

hope

5,296

51,917

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Hugh Jackman

nature

3,830

18,121

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

Barbara Kingsolver

experience

6,260

54,504

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

poetry

599

66,704

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Tucker Carlson

teacher

1,577

40,913

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Young

learning

456

66,714

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

C. L. R. James

teacher

10,724

44,382

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

Kyle Chandler

marriage

2,223

44,668

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Lisa Guerrero

marriage

5,039

72,467

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

King Hussein I

war

8,368

50,286

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

music

2,914

50,097

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

Hank Azaria

movies

127

61,300

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

Jeff Buckley

sad

10,873

31,252

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Stanley

great

7,087

9,148

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

change

6,946

4,562

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

David Rockefeller

art

3,234

27,136

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

Daniel Carter Beard

future

7,810

56,588

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Chanakya

power

7,363

13,921

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

Ralph Fiennes

death

11,507

32,820

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Monica Edwards

happiness

3,846

5,788

As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

Idina Menzel

beauty

6,739

44,815

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

marriage

622

64,194

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Curtis Joseph

sports

6,097

18,689

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

Ayelet Waldman

failure

6,695

11,677

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

courage

11,542

1,598

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Joyce Carol Oates

alone

9,982

44,368

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

marriage

6,077

18,898

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

failure

101

51,945

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Jean Ingelow

nature

516

72,256

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

James A. Garfield

war

28

89

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

age

3,050

45,292

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

men

7,003

14,169

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Daniel Boone

death

3,979

75,216

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

work

8,930

27,482

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Margaret Fuller

future

6,690

7,287

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

business

2,320

47,567

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

Dolly Parton

money

9,736

45,503

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Jim Rohn

men

8,791

16,249

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

John Glenn

education

1,673

7,240

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

Blair Underwood

birthday

410

39,351

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Li Ka Shing

knowledge

7,076

48,397

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

Benjamin Netanyahu

morning

3,999

70,782

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

E. O. Wilson

truth

2,811

11,604

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara de Angelis

courage

10,987

6,462

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

best