c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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3,921	66,556	Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.	John Updike	teacher
1,360	62,035	Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.	John Charles Polanyi	science
7,272	464	Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'	Sydney J. Harris	age
9,675	18,686	The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.	Edward Bach	failure
10,672	5,070	When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'	Pauline Neville-Jones	attitude
552	63,315	The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.	Phil McGraw	society
4,639	3,169	I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.	Albert Brooks	anger
2,002	5,225	Integrity reveals beauty.	Thomas Leonard	beauty
661	5,774	There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.	Mike Figgis	beauty
1,184	52,971	We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	peace
10,064	39,514	Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.	Harry Browne	knowledge
8,642	46,925	There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.	Chaske Spencer	mom
341	30,212	But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.	Marco Rubio	government
10,636	62,197	What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.	James Hansen	science
11,230	53,553	To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.	Natan Sharansky	peace
6	67,535	On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.	Jamie Zawinski	technology
6,324	14,173	After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.	Jaron Lanier	death
1,195	11,869	Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.	William Blackstone	courage
11,597	42,362	All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.	Napoleon Hill	life
8,747	64,190	On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.	Lisa Guerrero	sports
8,608	74,340	Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.	Billie Jean King	women
9,608	22,558	The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.	Terry Bradshaw	fear
9,415	28,773	He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.	John Bunyan	good
10,165	6,359	In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.	Barack Obama	best
8,110	26,236	Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.	Drew Carey	funny
4,483	32,768	Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.	Russell M. Nelson	happiness
7,496	73,418	I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.	Timothy White	wisdom
7,401	47,282	I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.	Joseph Campbell	money
11,777	34,821	There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.	Claude Vorilhon	history
3,403	42,789	Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.	Hugh Prather	life
10,238	2,301	My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.	Jaron Lanier	amazing
9,135	46,666	Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.	Brett Ratner	mom
9,475	40,370	I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.	Michael D. Higgins	leadership
9,706	65,498	Every failure is a step to success.	William Whewell	success
11,639	16,767	I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.	Bill Walton	education
1,592	8,593	People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.	Alain Prost	car
3,939	51,931	It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'	Marco Rubio	nature
4,500	46,534	Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.	Andy Cohen	mom
973	32,072	Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.	Arthur Schopenhauer	happiness
7,613	61,969	Science is the systematic classification of experience.	George Henry Lewes	science
3,546	60,427	Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.	Glenn Beck	romantic
256	12,902	My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.	John Astin	dad
2,537	38,050	The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.	Bruno Rossi	imagination
5,798	18,128	There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.	Umberto Eco	experience
9,090	36,228	Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.	Ivo Andric	hope
10,260	53,372	Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.	Josh McDowell	peace
273	32,253	And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.	Aeschylus	happiness
5,059	20,614	I don't have a saviour or a royal family.	John Malkovich	family
5,268	28,215	I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.	Lou Holtz	god
4,450	59,718	Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.	Ron Fournier	respect
2,240	20,544	No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.	Peace Pilgrim	family
3,109	37,460	There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.	Anais Nin	imagination
10,681	54,564	There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.	Hamlin Garland	poetry
5,623	59,935	How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?	Mary Astell	respect
8,796	58,534	There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.	Friedrich Nietzsche	religion
4,731	70,557	Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.	Aristotle	truth
3,758	373	I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.	Paul Cezanne	age
7,131	38,561	The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.	Lindsey Graham	intelligence
11,470	7,890	Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.	Richard Branson	business
10,808	69,946	Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.	Christina Aguilera	trust
10,387	73,097	If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.	Omar N. Bradley	wisdom
8,598	8,292	When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.	Ayrton Senna	car
4,844	12,831	My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.	Sam Brownback	dad
9,051	3,182	I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.	Jason Ritter	anger
3,660	10,677	I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.	Jeff Bridges	cool
11,426	18,206	Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.	Joyce Maynard	experience
11,619	23,146	Miss Child is never bashful with butter.	Phil Donahue	food
8,056	64,524	The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.	Robert Kiyosaki	strength
8,570	10,495	Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.	Mike Shinoda	computers
7,999	60,108	The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.	Lakhdar Brahimi	respect
3,476	9,643	Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.	John Henry Newman	change
5,391	36,114	If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.	Jacques Yves Cousteau	hope
4,363	65,861	You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.	Carlos Ghosn	success
4,072	65,543	Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.	Euripides	success
5,471	7,125	There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.	Lewis Carroll	birthday
4,885	24,712	What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.	David Cameron	freedom
1,736	62,075	Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.	Iain Banks	science
5,273	70,725	There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.	Anais Nin	truth
3,386	5,764	I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.	Rachel Bilson	beauty
408	3,683	An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.	Charles Horton Cooley	art
7,482	3,934	The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.	Leonardo da Vinci	art
9,605	75,071	I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.	Angela Davis	work
5,575	52,550	I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.	Dave Navarro	patience
1,718	64,119	At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.	Willie Mays	sports
10,039	62,328	When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.	John Carpenter	science
9,078	44,078	Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.	Barbara de Angelis	marriage
2,300	18,381	A life which does not go into action is a failure.	Arnold J. Toynbee	failure
5,936	47,333	Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R &amp D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.	Steve Jobs	money
8,234	13,636	We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	death
2,428	47,049	I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.	Coco Lee	mom
9,244	40,131	If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.	Dee Hock	leadership
1,545	67,563	The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.	Nick Price	technology
3,030	39,595	An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.	John McCarthy	knowledge
4,548	69,014	I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.	Suge Knight	time
2,053	33,755	However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.	Tim Murphy	health
7,759	65,598	If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.	Mason Cooley	success
1,094	35,680	I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.	Gary Vaynerchuk	home
995	2,000	If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.	Les Brown	amazing
9,305	44,187	Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.	Harry Connick, Jr.	marriage
3,154	40,580	A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	learning

3,921

66,556

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Updike

teacher

1,360

62,035

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

John Charles Polanyi

science

7,272

464

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Sydney J. Harris

age

9,675

18,686

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Edward Bach

failure

10,672

5,070

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

Pauline Neville-Jones

attitude

552

63,315

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

society

4,639

3,169

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Albert Brooks

anger

2,002

5,225

Integrity reveals beauty.

Thomas Leonard

beauty

661

5,774

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Mike Figgis

beauty

1,184

52,971

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

peace

10,064

39,514

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Harry Browne

knowledge

8,642

46,925

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

Chaske Spencer

mom

341

30,212

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

Marco Rubio

government

10,636

62,197

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

James Hansen

science

11,230

53,553

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Natan Sharansky

peace

6

67,535

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

Jamie Zawinski

technology

6,324

14,173

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Jaron Lanier

death

1,195

11,869

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

William Blackstone

courage

11,597

42,362

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill

life

8,747

64,190

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

Lisa Guerrero

sports

8,608

74,340

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

Billie Jean King

women

9,608

22,558

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

Terry Bradshaw

fear

9,415

28,773

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

John Bunyan

good

10,165

6,359

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

Barack Obama

best

8,110

26,236

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

Drew Carey

funny

4,483

32,768

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Russell M. Nelson

happiness

7,496

73,418

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

Timothy White

wisdom

7,401

47,282

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell

money

11,777

34,821

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Claude Vorilhon

history

3,403

42,789

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

life

10,238

2,301

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

Jaron Lanier

amazing

9,135

46,666

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Brett Ratner

mom

9,475

40,370

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

Michael D. Higgins

leadership

9,706

65,498

Every failure is a step to success.

William Whewell

success

11,639

16,767

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Bill Walton

education

1,592

8,593

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Alain Prost

car

3,939

51,931

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Marco Rubio

nature

4,500

46,534

Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Andy Cohen

mom

973

32,072

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

happiness

7,613

61,969

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes

science

3,546

60,427

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

Glenn Beck

romantic

256

12,902

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

John Astin

dad

2,537

38,050

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

Bruno Rossi

imagination

5,798

18,128

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Umberto Eco

experience

9,090

36,228

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Ivo Andric

hope

10,260

53,372

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

Josh McDowell

peace

273

32,253

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

Aeschylus

happiness

5,059

20,614

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

John Malkovich

family

5,268

28,215

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Lou Holtz

god

4,450

59,718

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

Ron Fournier

respect

2,240

20,544

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Peace Pilgrim

family

3,109

37,460

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

imagination

10,681

54,564

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Hamlin Garland

poetry

5,623

59,935

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Mary Astell

respect

8,796

58,534

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

religion

4,731

70,557

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

truth

3,758

373

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Paul Cezanne

age

7,131

38,561

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Lindsey Graham

intelligence

11,470

7,890

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Richard Branson

business

10,808

69,946

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

Christina Aguilera

trust

10,387

73,097

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar N. Bradley

wisdom

8,598

8,292

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Ayrton Senna

car

4,844

12,831

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Sam Brownback

dad

9,051

3,182

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

Jason Ritter

anger

3,660

10,677

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

Jeff Bridges

cool

11,426

18,206

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Joyce Maynard

experience

11,619

23,146

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Phil Donahue

food

8,056

64,524

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Robert Kiyosaki

strength

8,570

10,495

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

Mike Shinoda

computers

7,999

60,108

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

respect

3,476

9,643

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

change

5,391

36,114

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

hope

4,363

65,861

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Carlos Ghosn

success

4,072

65,543

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

success

5,471

7,125

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Lewis Carroll

birthday

4,885

24,712

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

David Cameron

freedom

1,736

62,075

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Iain Banks

science

5,273

70,725

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

truth

3,386

5,764

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

Rachel Bilson

beauty

408

3,683

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

art

7,482

3,934

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci

art

9,605

75,071

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Angela Davis

work

5,575

52,550

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

Dave Navarro

patience

1,718

64,119

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

Willie Mays

sports

10,039

62,328

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

John Carpenter

science

9,078

44,078

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara de Angelis

marriage

2,300

18,381

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

failure

5,936

47,333

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R &amp D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Steve Jobs

money

8,234

13,636

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

death

2,428

47,049

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Coco Lee

mom

9,244

40,131

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Dee Hock

leadership

1,545

67,563

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Nick Price

technology

3,030

39,595

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

John McCarthy

knowledge

4,548

69,014

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

Suge Knight

time

2,053

33,755

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

Tim Murphy

health

7,759

65,598

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Mason Cooley

success

1,094

35,680

I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

Gary Vaynerchuk

home

995

2,000

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

amazing

9,305

44,187

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

Harry Connick, Jr.

marriage

3,154

40,580

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

learning