c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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2,995	29,389	The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.	Fred Astaire	good
9,256	2,760	If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.	Lord Robertson	amazing
5,966	42,004	We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.	Lauryn Hill	life
1,598	19,881	Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.	Julianna Baggott	faith
4,680	36,297	Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.	Samuel Smiles	hope
6,282	70,821	It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.	Aldous Huxley	truth
9,585	56,270	But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.	Marc Wallice	positive
11,521	37,333	Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.	Eric Sevareid	humor
7,032	7,252	I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.	Matthew Sweet	birthday
10,898	51,242	What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.	Richard Bach	nature
1,569	19,843	All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.	Dean Inge	faith
11,050	10,493	One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.	Steve Case	computers
10,615	64,807	Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.	William Gurnall	strength
3,708	1,600	As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.	Janet Jackson	alone
306	35,412	Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.	Barbara Corcoran	home
220	54,752	The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.	Reynolds Price	poetry
8,499	48,209	True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.	Kurt Vonnegut	morning
3,182	15,915	It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.	John F. Kennedy	education
4,758	55,684	I never let my politics supersede my manners.	Darren Criss	politics
2,651	51,878	The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.	Thorstein Veblen	nature
8,120	28,067	Forgiveness is God's command.	Martin Luther	god
6,971	11,265	I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.	Rosanna Arquette	cool
7,916	59,107	It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.	Ernestine Rose	religion
8,694	6,630	As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.	Michelle Obama	best
1,541	48,542	I am not a morning person.	Laurell K. Hamilton	morning
4,302	71,451	Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.	Joseph Barber Lightfoot	truth
11,560	24,351	Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.	Theodore Roosevelt	freedom
10,432	74,827	The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.	Hillary Clinton	work
10,003	6,192	All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.	Walt Disney	best
1,427	39,532	The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.	Tahar Ben Jelloun	knowledge
6,751	58,493	Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.	Albert Einstein	religion
6,818	41,399	My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.	Chick Corea	learning
4,692	25,188	The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.	Bob Riley	freedom
4,701	56,786	Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	power
6,546	68,869	The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.	Martin Heidegger	time
7,379	6,300	You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.	Eminem	best
7,290	6,119	The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.	Mahatma Gandhi	best
9,098	39,641	Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.	Paul Davies	knowledge
6,296	52,371	Our patience will achieve more than our force.	Edmund Burke	patience
2,118	20,581	I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.	Nadia Giosia	family
9,096	12,950	My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.	Jesse Tyler Ferguson	dad
3,390	65,642	Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.	Robert Collier	success
10,542	3,449	No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.	John Ruskin	architecture
10,336	2,256	I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.	Ashley Greene	amazing
5,206	72,159	Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.	Howard Dean	war
9,994	38,915	Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.	Francois de La Rochefoucauld	jealousy
3,111	23,325	The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.	Alton Brown	food
10,608	42,179	Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.	Steve Jobs	life
5,502	13,153	I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.	Richard Gere	dating
10,709	22,368	President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.	Eliot Spitzer	fear
2,069	24,815	Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.	Rollo May	freedom
4,907	53,703	People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.	Hamid Karzai	peace
11,696	57,561	Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.	John le Carre	relationship
8,067	3,041	Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.	Alice Duer Miller	anger
8,456	68,519	Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.	H. G. Wells	time
2,137	10,029	The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.	Gene Tierney	change
4,849	8,923	Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.	Amy Weber	car
5,787	37,277	I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.	Cecily von Ziegesar	humor
9,407	59,287	Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.	Dennis Potter	religion
1,695	42,008	The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.	William Hazlitt	life
3,405	54,936	The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.	Alphonse de Lamartine	politics
11,636	33,171	Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.	Jane Fonda	health
6,609	30,877	A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.	Bryant H. McGill	great
1,198	8,956	The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.	Charlie Rose	car
1,054	41,861	Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.	Sai Baba	life
4,277	22,309	Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.	Phil McGraw	fear
7,528	56,821	When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.	Rene Descartes	power
3,678	45,918	Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.	Brian Tracy	men
544	49,671	I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.	Anna Chlumsky	movies
8,544	74,183	Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.	Julie Nixon Eisenhower	women
3,218	16,258	Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.	James A. Garfield	education
10,700	61,642	'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.	Julia Roberts	science
8,637	66,774	I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.	Dakota Fanning	teacher
9,853	61,181	What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.	Boy George	sad
4,959	57,509	I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.	Oliver Reed	relationship
8,242	20,164	It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.	Caroline Kennedy	family
9,454	38,770	I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.	Linda Hunt	intelligence
7,362	5,185	Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.	Saint Augustine	beauty
2,552	65,414	If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.	Ernest Hemingway	success
721	16,457	By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.	Dan Lipinski	education
8,869	38,253	Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.	Arthur Schopenhauer	intelligence
6,412	7,542	I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.	Hillary Clinton	business
5,149	32,132	Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!	William Hazlitt	happiness
11,175	29,020	A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.	Nelson Mandela	good
278	12,214	Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.	Jay Leno	dad
5,287	51,930	We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.	Marco Rubio	nature
11,195	15,968	America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.	Evan Esar	education
11,115	62,718	Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.	George Cooper	smile
4,667	1,529	Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.	Paracelsus	alone
1,295	38,015	The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.	Sarah Fielding	imagination
2,308	35,990	Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	hope
8,482	1,208	Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.	Gilbert K. Chesterton	alone
6,994	4,928	You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.	Adriana Lima	attitude
7,874	38,806	We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.	John Fiske	intelligence
7,531	86	No man is ever old enough to know better.	Holbrook Jackson	age
2,536	19,467	The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.	Alexander Smith	faith
5,168	72,990	Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.	Rush Limbaugh	wisdom
7,780	25,092	With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.	Ian MacKaye	freedom
3,436	2,075	When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.	Prince William	amazing
7,594	13,002	My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.	Joey Lauren Adams	dad

2,995

29,389

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

good

9,256

2,760

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

Lord Robertson

amazing

5,966

42,004

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Lauryn Hill

life

1,598

19,881

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Julianna Baggott

faith

4,680

36,297

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

hope

6,282

70,821

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley

truth

9,585

56,270

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

Marc Wallice

positive

11,521

37,333

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

humor

7,032

7,252

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

Matthew Sweet

birthday

10,898

51,242

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

nature

1,569

19,843

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Dean Inge

faith

11,050

10,493

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

Steve Case

computers

10,615

64,807

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

William Gurnall

strength

3,708

1,600

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

Janet Jackson

alone

306

35,412

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Barbara Corcoran

home

220

54,752

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

poetry

8,499

48,209

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

morning

3,182

15,915

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John F. Kennedy

education

4,758

55,684

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Darren Criss

politics

2,651

51,878

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Thorstein Veblen

nature

8,120

28,067

Forgiveness is God's command.

Martin Luther

god

6,971

11,265

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

cool

7,916

59,107

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

Ernestine Rose

religion

8,694

6,630

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Michelle Obama

best

1,541

48,542

I am not a morning person.

Laurell K. Hamilton

morning

4,302

71,451

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

truth

11,560

24,351

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

freedom

10,432

74,827

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

Hillary Clinton

work

10,003

6,192

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

best

1,427

39,532

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

knowledge

6,751

58,493

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

religion

6,818

41,399

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Chick Corea

learning

4,692

25,188

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Bob Riley

freedom

4,701

56,786

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

power

6,546

68,869

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

time

7,379

6,300

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Eminem

best

7,290

6,119

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

best

9,098

39,641

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Paul Davies

knowledge

6,296

52,371

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

patience

2,118

20,581

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Nadia Giosia

family

9,096

12,950

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

dad

3,390

65,642

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

success

10,542

3,449

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

architecture

10,336

2,256

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

Ashley Greene

amazing

5,206

72,159

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

war

9,994

38,915

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

jealousy

3,111

23,325

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

Alton Brown

food

10,608

42,179

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

life

5,502

13,153

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

Richard Gere

dating

10,709

22,368

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

Eliot Spitzer

fear

2,069

24,815

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Rollo May

freedom

4,907

53,703

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

Hamid Karzai

peace

11,696

57,561

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John le Carre

relationship

8,067

3,041

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Alice Duer Miller

anger

8,456

68,519

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

time

2,137

10,029

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

Gene Tierney

change

4,849

8,923

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

Amy Weber

car

5,787

37,277

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

Cecily von Ziegesar

humor

9,407

59,287

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Dennis Potter

religion

1,695

42,008

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

William Hazlitt

life

3,405

54,936

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

politics

11,636

33,171

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

Jane Fonda

health

6,609

30,877

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Bryant H. McGill

great

1,198

8,956

The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.

Charlie Rose

car

1,054

41,861

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

Sai Baba

life

4,277

22,309

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

Phil McGraw

fear

7,528

56,821

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Rene Descartes

power

3,678

45,918

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

men

544

49,671

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Anna Chlumsky

movies

8,544

74,183

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

women

3,218

16,258

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

education

10,700

61,642

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

science

8,637

66,774

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Dakota Fanning

teacher

9,853

61,181

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Boy George

sad

4,959

57,509

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

Oliver Reed

relationship

8,242

20,164

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Caroline Kennedy

family

9,454

38,770

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Linda Hunt

intelligence

7,362

5,185

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

beauty

2,552

65,414

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ernest Hemingway

success

721

16,457

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

Dan Lipinski

education

8,869

38,253

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

intelligence

6,412

7,542

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Hillary Clinton

business

5,149

32,132

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

William Hazlitt

happiness

11,175

29,020

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Nelson Mandela

good

278

12,214

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Jay Leno

dad

5,287

51,930

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Marco Rubio

nature

11,195

15,968

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

education

11,115

62,718

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

George Cooper

smile

4,667

1,529

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Paracelsus

alone

1,295

38,015

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

imagination

2,308

35,990

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

hope

8,482

1,208

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

alone

6,994

4,928

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Adriana Lima

attitude

7,874

38,806

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.

John Fiske

intelligence

7,531

86

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

age

2,536

19,467

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Alexander Smith

faith

5,168

72,990

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

wisdom

7,780

25,092

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

Ian MacKaye

freedom

3,436

2,075

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

Prince William

amazing

7,594

13,002

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

Joey Lauren Adams

dad